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News of a Kidnapping

by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. brodart protected. first american edition.A chronicle of the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by the Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar by he author of LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman..

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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 #
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Title
News of a Kidnapping
Author
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
0375400516
ISBN 13
9780375400513
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Place of Publication
Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published
1997
Keywords
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, first edition

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