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News of a kidnapping / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.

by García Márquez, Gabriel, 1927-2014

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Vintage International, 2008.

Kidnapping -- Colombia.

Hostages -- Colombia.

Drug traffic -- Colombia.

9780375400513 (hc., Alfred A. Knopf 1997 ed.)

0375400516 (hc., Alfred A. Knopf 1997 ed.)

9781400034932 (pbk., Vintage 2008 ed.)

1400034930 (pbk., Vintage 2008 ed.)

Noticia de un secuestro. English English.

1st Vintage International ed.

291 p. ; 21 cm.

"By the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez"--Cover.

"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."--From publisher.

Grossman, Edith, 1936-

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