News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquezgabriel Marquez
Pablo Escobar: billionaire drugs baron, and jefe of the infamous Madellin cartel. A man whose importance in the international drug trade and renowned 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. This book tells his story.
Marquez uses his novelist's instinct for emotional drama to give the reader a wonderfully immediate sense of his subjects' ordeal: their spiraling hopes and fears, their fantasies of escape, their desperation and despair-- Michiko Kakutani, The * New York Times *
Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder * The Sunday Times *
A story only a writer of Márquez's stature could tell so brilliantly. A tour de force * Mail on Sunday *
The great strength of the book is the authority of its details. There is so much here that, as we say, no one would make up * Guardian *
Marquez uses his novelist's instinct for emotional drama to give the reader a wonderfully immediate sense of his subjects' ordeal: their spiraling hopes and fears, their fantasies of escape, their desperation and despair. -- Michiko Kakutani, The * New York Times *
Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder * The Sunday Times *
A story only a writer of Márquez's stature could tell so brilliantly. A tour de force * Mail on Sunday *
The great strength of the book is the authority of its details. There is so much here that, as we say, no one would make up * Guardian *
Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder * The Sunday Times *
A story only a writer of Márquez's stature could tell so brilliantly. A tour de force * Mail on Sunday *
The great strength of the book is the authority of its details. There is so much here that, as we say, no one would make up * Guardian *
Marquez uses his novelist's instinct for emotional drama to give the reader a wonderfully immediate sense of his subjects' ordeal: their spiraling hopes and fears, their fantasies of escape, their desperation and despair. -- Michiko Kakutani, The * New York Times *
Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder * The Sunday Times *
A story only a writer of Márquez's stature could tell so brilliantly. A tour de force * Mail on Sunday *
The great strength of the book is the authority of its details. There is so much here that, as we say, no one would make up * Guardian *
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), 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), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141032504 |
| ISBN 10 | 0141032502 |
| Title | News of a Kidnapping |
| Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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