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News of a Kidnapping

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

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Jan 08, 2008 | ISBN 9781400034932

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Oct 15, 2014 | ISBN 9781101911228

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    About News of a Kidnapping

    In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He also depicts the keening ache of Colombia after nearly forty years of rebel uprisings, right-wing death squads, currency collapse and narco-democracy. With cinematic intensity, breathtaking language and journalistic rigor, García Márquez evokes the sickness that inflicts his beloved country and how it penetrates every strata of society, from the lowliest peasant to the President himself.

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    In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar – head of the Medellín drug cartel – kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, García Márquez describes the survivors’ perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release. He also depicts the keening ache of Colombia after nearly forty years of rebel uprisings, right-wing death squads, currency collapse and narco-democracy. With cinematic intensity, breathtaking language and journalistic rigor, García Márquez evokes the sickness that inflicts his beloved country and how it penetrates every strata of society, from the lowliest peasant to the President himself.

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    About Gabriel García Márquez

    GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    About Gabriel García Márquez

    GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | True Crime

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 08, 2008 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400034932

    Category: Biography & Memoir | True Crime

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 15, 2014 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781101911228

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    Praise

    “Fascinating. . . . Possesses all the drama and emotional resonance of García Márquez’s most powerful fiction.” —The New York Times“Brilliant. . . . Deeply affecting. . . . A story rich in characters who are both heroic and contradictory.” —The Wall Street Journal“A potent mixture of the newshound’s well-documented detail and the novelist’s tragic vision.” —Chicago Tribune“A powerful story. . . . In a series of telling strokes, shifting subtly from one perspective to another, García Márquez conveys the madness of the hostages’ imprisonment, the despair, the anger, the false hope, the resignation.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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