News of a Kidnapping - Couverture souple

Márquez, Gabriel García

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140269444 ISBN 13 : 9780140269444

Editeur : Penguin, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, is the author of many novels and collections of stories, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in His Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, and Of Love and Other Demons. He lives in Mexico City and Bogota.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140269444
• ISBN 13: 9780140269444
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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