One of Marquez’s early books. A “documentary novel” dedicated to the story of eight sailors of a warship, washed overboard during a storm and found only ten days later. What did these people experience? How did they fight for life? An ordinary writer would have turned this story into a journalistic work - but under the pen of Marquez, real events became the basis for a brilliant parable about courage and fate weighing on every person. About fate, which can and must be overcome...