New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to dj.). First US printing. The first full-length non-fiction book by this Nobel Prize winning author, an account of the orchestrated kidnappings of ten Colombians (all except one, journalists) by the Medellin drug cartel in 1990. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 291 pp.

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Consumed these past twenty years by a "biblical holocaust," Colombia has endured leftist insurgencies, right-wing death squads, currency collapses, cholera epidemics, and, most recently and corrosively, drug trafficking. Returning to his days as a reporter for El Espectador, Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles, with consummate skill, the period in late 1990 when Colombian security forces mounted a nationwide manhunt for Pablo Escobar, the ruthless and elusive head of the Medellin cartel. Ten men and women were abducted by Escobar?s henchmen and used as bargaining chips against extradition to the United States. From the testimonies and diaries of the survivors, Garcia Marquez reconstructs their bizarre ordeal with cinematic intensity, breathtaking language, and rigor. We are drawn into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great Garcia Marquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists?but that continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 43640
Title: NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING.
Author: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to dj.)
Jacket Condition: near fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375400516
ISBN 13: 9780375400513
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: 1997.
Keywords: columbia, cocaine traficking, nobel laureate, pablo escobar, journalists,
Bookseller catalogs: Latin American Lit and History;

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