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A review by amasprout
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
4.0
A short book recounting the story of a sailor in the Colombian navy who survived for 10 days adrift on a life raft at sea. Picked up the audiobook (narrated by Gary Tiedemann) on a whim since it was only about 3 hours long and I had some errands to do.
I would have loved for some sort of epilogue providing greater context for the aftermath re: the Colombian government at the time having lied about the storm causing the accident when in reality the weighty, contraband merchandise is what unsteadied the boat. Instead, I went down the rabbit hole of reading NYT articles from the 1980s about the story:
The Government of Rojas Pinilla was incensed at this smear against the navy and took its revenge. El Espectador was closed. Mr. Velasco was forced to leave the navy and ''disappeared into the oblivion of everyday life.'' Mr. Garcia Marquez fled to France and began his ''nomadic and somewhat nostalgic exile that in certain ways also resembles a drifting raft.''
I would have loved for some sort of epilogue providing greater context for the aftermath re: the Colombian government at the time having lied about the storm causing the accident when in reality the weighty, contraband merchandise is what unsteadied the boat. Instead, I went down the rabbit hole of reading NYT articles from the 1980s about the story:
The Government of Rojas Pinilla was incensed at this smear against the navy and took its revenge. El Espectador was closed. Mr. Velasco was forced to leave the navy and ''disappeared into the oblivion of everyday life.'' Mr. Garcia Marquez fled to France and began his ''nomadic and somewhat nostalgic exile that in certain ways also resembles a drifting raft.''