‘The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship’ is a 1968 short story by the Colombian writer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (1927-2014). The story, which consists of one long sentence, tells of a mysterious ocean liner which appears near a coastal village one night every March.
As with much of the fiction of writer Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, ‘The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship’ is an example of magic realism (of which more shortly), so a few words of analysis are needed to understand the narrative. Before that, though, here’s a brief summary of the story’s plot.