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News of a Kidnapping

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News of a Kidnapping

by Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

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Knopf, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition (so stated on the copyright page) in a fine dust jacket, with a signed inscription and a drawing by Garcia Marquez on the half title page. A sticker indicating this is a Special Preview Edition is on the back panel of the dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Synopsis

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 #
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Title
News of a Kidnapping
Author
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Knopf
Date Published
1997

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