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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928- News of a kidnapping. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, Inc., 1997 (OCoLC)643899964 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN: | 0375400516 9780375400513 |
| OCLC Number: | 36528149 |
| Description: | 291 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Noticia de un secuestro. |
| Responsibility: | Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. |
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Abstract:
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.
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