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NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING.
de Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to dj.)/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375400516
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400513
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New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1997.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to dj.). First US printing. The first full-length non-fiction book by this Nobel Prize winning author, an account of the orchestrated kidnappings of ten Colombians (all except one, journalists) by the Medellin drug cartel in 1990. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 291 pp.
Sinopsis
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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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 43640
- Título
- NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING.
- Autor
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to dj.)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- near fine
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0375400516
- ISBN 13
- 9780375400513
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1997.
- Palabras clave
- columbia, cocaine traficking, nobel laureate, pablo escobar, journalists,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Latin American Lit and History;
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