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News of a Kidnapping
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- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780375400513
- Book Title
- News of a Kidnapping
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Original Language
- Spanish
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, General, Criminology
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 24.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they were to surrender. From the highest corridors of government to the domain of the ruthless drug cartels, we watch the unfolding of a bizarre drama replete with fascinating characters: César Gaviria, the nation's cool and secretive president; Diana Turbay, a famous television journalist and magazine editor; three indomitable women who are imprisoned for miserable months in a small room with a light perpetually on; an eighty-two-year-old priest with a mission to bring the regime and the cartel to the negotiating table; and Escobar himself, the legendary drug baron who changes his bodyguards daily and maintains a private zoo with giraffes and hippos from Africa. All of this takes place in a country where presidential candidates and cabinet officers are routinely assassinated; where police go into the Medellín slums to murder boys they think may be working for Escobar; but where brave and honest citizens are trying desperately to make democracy survive. An international best-seller, News of a Kidnapping combines journalistic tenacity with the breathtaking language and perception that distinguish the writings of Gabriel García Márquez. It draws us into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great García Márquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists--but that continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375400516
ISBN-13
9780375400513
eBay Product ID (ePID)
260798
Product Key Features
Book Title
News of a Kidnapping
Original Language
Spanish
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, General, Criminology
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
24.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv6604.C7g3713 1997
Reviews
"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 From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Lccn
97-005445
Dewey Decimal
364.15409861
Dewey Edition
23
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