by Gabriel García Márquez · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490323762
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«Relato de un náufrago» is the account by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Debolsillo in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Colombian sailor Luis Alejandro Velasco spends ten days adrift on a raft in the Caribbean Sea, without food or drink. The book reconstructs his survival and rescue, and the political scandal that the report triggered at El Espectador in Bogotá by revealing smuggling in the Navy, which cost García Márquez exile.
Sixth edition of Debolsillo's Contemporánea collection, published on 4 April 2013. The original report was serialised in El Espectador in Bogotá in 1955.
Aimed at readers aged 14 and over, useful for school settings and for those approaching Latin American literature.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
