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News of a Kidnapping

Gabriel Garcia Marquez`s News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. `She looked over her shoulder before getting into the car to be sure no one was following her.` Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, ruthless manipulator brutal killer and jefe of the infamous Madellin cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renown for his charitable work among the poor brought him influence and power in his home country of Colombia, and the unwanted attention of the American courts. Terrified of the new Colombian President`s determination to extradite him to America, Escobar found the best bargaining tools he could find: hostages. In the winter of 1990, ten relatives of Colombian politicians, mostly women, were abducted and held hostage as Escobar attempted to strong-arm the government into blocking his extradition. Two died, the rest survived, and from their harrowing stories Marquez retells, with vivid clarity, the terror and uncertainty of those dark an volatile months. โ€Reads with an urgency which belongs to the finest fiction.I have never read anything which gave a better sense of the way Colombia was in worst timesโ€. (Daily Telegraph). โ€Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Marquez`s fiction, hitting home rather harderโ€. (Sunday Times). โ€A piece of remarkable investigative journalism made all the more brilliant by the author`s talent for magical storytellingโ€. (Financial Times). As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has received international recognition for his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage Mr. President, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In Evil Hour, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale, Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims.

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