The Resource News of a kidnapping, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
News of a kidnapping, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
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- Summary
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- This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women - all journalists but one - by the Medellin 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 Medellin slums to murder boys they think may be working for Escobar; but where brave and honest citizens are trying desperately to make democracy survive
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 291 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375400513
- Label
- News of a kidnapping
- Title
- News of a kidnapping
- Statement of responsibility
- Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Language
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- eng
- spa
- eng
- Summary
-
- This astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women - all journalists but one - by the Medellin 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 Medellin slums to murder boys they think may be working for Escobar; but where brave and honest citizens are trying desperately to make democracy survive
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- Noticia de un secuestro
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1927-2014
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- García Márquez, Gabriel
- Dewey number
- 364.15/4/09861
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV6604.C7
- LC item number
- G3713 1997
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Kidnapping
- Hostages
- Drug traffic
- Drug traffic
- Hostages
- Kidnapping
- Colombia
- Label
- News of a kidnapping, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Control code
- ocm36528149
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 291 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375400513
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97005445
- Label
- News of a kidnapping, Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- Control code
- ocm36528149
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 291 p.
- Isbn
- 9780375400513
- Isbn Type
- (hc : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97005445
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