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| Original Title: | Noticia de un secuestro ISBN13 9780140267839 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Colombia |
Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Paperback | Pages: 291 pages Rating: 3.85 | 9939 Users | 594 Reviews
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| Title | : | News of a Kidnapping |
| Author | : | Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 291 pages |
| Published | : | July 30th 1998 by Penguin (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History |
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THIS ASTONISHING BOOK by the Nobel laureate Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian man and women--all journalists but one--by the MedellÃn 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 Cesar 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 MedellÃn 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 GarcÃa Márquez. It draws us unto into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great GarcÃa Márquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists--but that continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality.Rating Based On Books News of a Kidnapping
Ratings: 3.85 From 9939 Users | 594 ReviewsCrit Based On Books News of a Kidnapping
Before his novels came to define magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a reporter and journalist. This work is from 1996 - after his greatest novels. It was also a time when the perpetrators of the crimes he writes of were still free and able to do harm.The modest title belies the stunning narrative. While the focus is on the hostages, it is also the story of how the wily Pablo Escobar negotiated surrender to the Colombian government to include a prison of his own design and staffing soOne of the best books I read this year!
Snooooooze. Maybe it's in the wake of my trip to Colombia, where I thought I would be carried away by all things evoking Marquez, but I am honestly kind of questioning my slavish devotion to his greatness, lately. When I first read them, I was totally enthralled by A Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and The Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, and at least liked Love In The Time of Cholera pretty well. I was entirely annoyed by Memories of My Melancholy Whores for
Noticia de un Secuestro = News of a Kidnapping, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez News of a Kidnapping is a non-fiction book by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. It was first published in Spanish in 1996. The book recounts the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of a handful of prominent figures in Colombia in the early 1990's by the Medellin Cartel, a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar.The book begins with an account of the abductions of Maruja Pachon and Beatriz Villamizar de Guerrero the
I loved this book because I knew what to expect. I didn't expect the magical realism that I love Marquez for. I didn't expect depiction of feelings in any direct way. This is a journalistic account of a series of kidnappings happened in Colombia during the drug trafficking war days. I was surprised by how he was able to put the pieces together without sensationalizing. The narration was compelling and I finished the whole book in my record time! :) Recommend anyone this book, but make sure they
4.5 rounded upIn a nutshell, the central focus of News of a Kidnapping is the story of ten abductions, the victims' experiences in captivity, and the families' efforts to get these people released, but to tell that story, the author places these kidnappings in the wider context of Colombia's troubled history of politics, narco trafficking and terrorism. It also follows how Pablo Escobar went from being host to "Politicians, industrialists, businesspeople, journalists..." at his Hacienda Nápoles
This book tells the true story of 6 people kidnapped by the drug cartel led by Pablo Escobar as a way to get the government to pass a law not allowing Colombia to extradite drug criminals to the US. The hostages tell their story - those that lived - and it shows the human side of all people in the situation. As the same time you see the value placed on human life when one's power needs are at stake. I read this book in preparation for my trip to Colombia and to understand the culture of violence
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