News Of A Kidnapping - Rilegato

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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ISBN 10: 0224050028 ISBN 13: 9780224050029

Casa editrice: Jonathan Cape, 1997

Riassunto

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new book begins in November 1990 in Bogota, Columbia, when a group of gunmen ambush a car, kill the chauffeur and kidnap its two women passengers. The gunmen were working for Pablo Escobar, boss of the Medellin course cocaine cartel, who in the early nineties kidnapped the relatives of a number of Colombia politcians in order to pressurise the government to suspend the policy of extraditing drug traffickers to the USA.

Chronicle of a Kidnapping is at once a powerful, disturbing account of how Esobar undermined all Colombia's civil instutions by murder or bribery, and a moving exploration of the fate of Esobar's hostages, who were mostly middle-aged or elderly women.

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Descrizione del libro:

A masterly 'non-fiction novel' about the Colombia drug wars.

L'autore:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogota and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador as as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York.

He is the author of many novels and collections of short stories - inlcuding One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, The General in his Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims and Of Love and Other Demons. Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize ofr Literaure in 1982.

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• Editore: Jonathan Cape
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0224050028
• ISBN 13: 9780224050029
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 304