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The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World: A Tale For Children by Gabriel García Márquez
bookshelves: spring-2014, published-1980, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, e-book, kiddlewinks, lifestyles-deathstyles, nobel-laureate
Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura
Recommended for: Wanda, Jema etc
Read on April 29, 2014
Read online here
Opening: THE FIRST CHILDREN who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags or masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach, they removed the clumps of seaweed, the jellyfish tentacles, and the remains of fish and flotsam, and only then did they see that it was a drowned man.
Even his shortest stories make one look at life (and death) differently!
Opening: THE FIRST CHILDREN who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags or masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach, they removed the clumps of seaweed, the jellyfish tentacles, and the remains of fish and flotsam, and only then did they see that it was a drowned man.
Even his shortest stories make one look at life (and death) differently!
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