Noticia de un secuestro / News of a Kidnapping
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Noticia de un secuestro / News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
La crónica de un secuestro colectivo, magistralmente retratado por Gabriel García Márquez.Ahora una serie en Prime Video, protagonizada por Cristina Umaña, Juan Pablo Raba, Majida Issa, Carmenza Gómez, Julieth Restrepo, Nydia Quintero y más.
En 1990, temiendo la extradición a Estados Unidos, Pablo Escobar --cabecilla del cartel de Medellín-- secuestró a diez conocidos colombianos para usarlos como moneda de cambio. Con el ojo de un poeta, Gabriel García Márquez describe la peligrosa prueba de los secuestrados y el increíble drama de las negociaciones para su liberación. También muestra el dolor de Colombia después de casi cuarenta años de revolución guerrillera, sicarios, crisis económica y narcodemocracia.
Con intensidad cinematográfica, lenguaje impresionante y rigor periodístico, García Márquez evoca la enfermedad que afecta a su amado país y muestra como penetra cada estrato social, desde el más humilde campesino hasta el mismo presidente.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The real abduction of a group of notable Colombians, portraid by Nobel Prize-winning author, Gabriel García Márquez.
Now a limited series in Prime Video, interpreted by Cristina Umaña and Juan Pablo Raba, among many others.
In 1990, fearing extradition to the United States, Pablo Escobar - head of the Medellín drug cartel - kidnapped ten notable Colombians to use them as bargaining chips. With the eye of a poet, Gabriel García Márquez describes the survivors' perilous ordeal and the bizarre drama of the negotiations for their release.
With cinematic intensity, breathtaking language and journalistic rigor, García Márquez evokes the sickness that inflicts his beloved country and how it penetrates every strata of society, from the lowliest peasant to the President himself.
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781400034987 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400034981 |
| Title | Noticia de un secuestro / News of a Kidnapping |
| Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Espanol |
| Year published | 2011-07-12 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |