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Noticia de un secuestro / News of a Kidnapping

Noticia de un secuestro / News of a Kidnapping

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/07/2011

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La cronica de un secuestro colectivo, magistralmente retratado por Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Ahora una serie en Prime Video, protagonizada por Cristina Umana, Juan Pablo Raba, Majida Issa, Carmenza Gomez, Julieth Restrepo, Nydia Quintero y mas.

En 1990, temiendo la extradicion a Estados Unidos, Pablo Escobar -cabecilla del cartel de Medellin- secuestro a diez conocidos colombianos para usarlos como moneda de cambio. Con el ojo de un poeta, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describe la peligrosa prueba de los secuestrados y el increible drama de las negociaciones para su liberacion. Tambien muestra el dolor de Colombia despues de casi cuarenta anos de revolucion guerrillera, sicarios, crisis economica y narcodemocracia.

Con intensidad cinematografica, lenguaje impresionante y rigor periodistico, Garcia Marquez evoca la enfermedad que afecta a su amado pais y muestra como penetra cada estrato social, desde el mas humilde campesino hasta el mismo presidente.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The real abduction of a group of notable Colombians, portraid by Nobel Prize-winning author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Now a limited series in Prime Video, interpreted by Cristina Umana and Juan Pablo Raba, among many others.

In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar - head of the Medellin drug cartel - kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use them as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes the survivors' perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release.

With cinematic intensity, breathtaking language and journalistic rigor, Garcia Marquez evokes the sickness that inflicts his beloved country and how it penetrates every strata of society, from the lowliest peasant to the President himself.
ISBN:
9781400034987
9781400034987
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-07-2011
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Vintage Espanol
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
336
Dimensions (mm):
202x134x19mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

He lives in Mexico City. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.

His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004).

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