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During the 1980s, the government of Colombia signed a treaty with the United States allowing for the extradition of Colombian citizens. This caused a great deal of distress among the kingpins of the Medellín drug cartel. Why? Traffickers like Pablo Escobar had spent the decade exporting billions of dollars' worth of cocaine. They weren't likely to be arrested at home, but if extradited and tried in America, they would spend the rest of their lives in prison.

Escobar and his colleagues tried to a cut a deal with the government. Then Escobar decided that a little extralegal pressure--i.e., terrorism--could do no harm. In short order he had 10 prominent Colombians kidnapped; most were journalists, and all had professional or personal ties to the pro-extradition movement. Ultimately two of the hostages were shot. The remaining eight were released in a trickle, as the drug traffickers began to break ranks and surrender. So ended at least one episode in what Gabriel García Márquez calls "the biblical holocaust that has been consuming Colombia for more than twenty years."

García Márquez was originally invited to write about the kidnapping by Maruja Pachon, who spent six months in captivity. As he began to write, however, he realized that her story was inseparable from that of the other nine victims. The result is a meticulous, sobering, and suspenseful book. It is, of course, a work of reportage, which puts a lid on the author's penchant for magic realism. But in the hands of a writer like García Márquez, truth makes fiction look paltry indeed. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



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Garcia Marquez, Latin America's Nobel prize-winning novelist, turns his hand for the first time to nonfiction to explain, through one individual's experience, the widespread kidnapping in Colombia. Although focusing on Maruja Pachon's six months in captivity and her prominent husband's efforts to obtain her release, the book is really about the 1990 abduction of ten individuals by drug traffickers hoping to prevent their extradition to the United States. As he does so memorably in his fiction, the author captures the political intricacies and strange, deep involvement of drug dealers in Colombian life, turning what as easily could have been an imagined story into a fascinating exploration of contemporary culture, politics, and drug lords. Highly recommended.?Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Ctr., Tulane Univ., New Orleans
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Well documented, well translated, Avril 15 2004
This review is from: News Of A Kidnapping (Paperback)
This is my first attempt at GGM's work. The author's writing style is very different in accounting the events happened during that kidnap saga. As he explains the events unfolding, he carefully adds the background information of the appropriate character(s) involved in the scene and he gets back to the present by providing the correct dose of the past. Though the reader aware of the victims killed, the heart races every time the government forces goof up and we wonder whom going to get killed. That means successful writing. The book details the exhaustive account of how all the sides acted during the period of kidnapping, how professionally and emotionally the victims' families handle the situations. The author explains them in a measured quantity rather than tiring the reader with too many deatils.

The translation is great and I can't help feeling that Edith Grossman got into GGM's mind and translate it exactly what he was trying to put it. Very rare I come across a translator like that.

Worth reading.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Bookstore owners: read before you clasify !!!!!!, Oct. 23 2003
Par Juan C Villamil (Bogota, Colombia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: News of a Kidnapping (Hardcover)
When you walk into a bookstore and go to the history section, and look for latinamerican history, you will find this book there. It is absolutely outrageous that this book is sold as if it were titled "A History of Colombia".

Kidnapping is a phenomena that has plagued Colombia for some time now, as it provides the economic means for the civil war in Colombia. However, kidnapping is not the axis our major point of our history.

This very well written book is an account of a kidnapping from the inside. Gabo actually spoke to the people this happened to, and penned it nicely. This book is sad and reflects a reality which should only exist in nightmares.

Worth it.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 García Márquez as a journalist, Oct. 29 2002
Par dmpulp (Mexico, DF Mexico) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: News of a Kidnapping (Hardcover)
"News of a Kidnapping" reveals García Márquez first passion: journalism. Though it's a novel, it's inspired on a series of real events that happened on Colombia several years ago. There's no evident criticism, but it reveals and illustrates the political situation of Colombia at that time (though it is still happening at the present). If you read this book, you're going to suffer both the hostages situations as their families' (as if you were either one).
But besides the dramatical situations, what is extremely interesting is the way the events are narrated. The odd chapters narrate the kidnapped people situations, their suffering. The even chapters narrate their families situations.
Though García Márquez always tend to jump back and forward into time in the same page, here the plot is more lineal and, as i said before, more journalistic.
Evidently, the kidnapping is one of the most awful crimes a human-being and his family can suffer, and by reading this, you will find out why.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Gripping -- I couldn't put it down
What an amazing story! And to have it told by Garcia Marquez.

This is the true story of a series of kidnappings that took place in Colombia a decade ago. Read more

Publié le Sep 24 2002 par Lisa Pozzi

5.0étoiles sur 5 The Noble laureate returns to his journalistic roots
"News of a Kidnapping" is a stunning account of a tragic chapter in Colombian history. Gabriel García Márquez's powers of mind, imagination and literature create a... Read more
Publié le Jui 15 2002 par Bert Ruiz

5.0étoiles sur 5 News of a Kidnapping
I have read the original book in Spanish and I have to say it is great. The detail in which Garcia Marquez describes the events is impressive. Read more
Publié le Jui 10 2002 par Petr Mikyska

3.0étoiles sur 5 History of a Kidnapping
This book was very dull. I was hoping for an account of the true-life kidnappings of several Colombian journalists in 1990 by a terrorist drug cartel. Read more
Publié le Mai 23 2001 par Jay

4.0étoiles sur 5 Pablo Escobar kidnaps and kills people.
A great book about the narco terrorism in Columbia. Pablo Escobar kidnaps 9 prominent people and holds them until he gets the government to change the extratadition policy. Read more
Publié le Avril 20 2001 par Kevin M Quigg

4.0étoiles sur 5 Not for the fainthearted..
Let me say this first: this is not a book for the fainthearted! If you have someone you care about in Colombia, you will drive that person (and yourself) crazy if you read this... Read more
Publié le Avril 17 2001 par Hilde B

4.0étoiles sur 5 Good journalism from a great fiction writer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "News of a Kidnapping" is a non-fiction work of journalism. This is unusual in that Señor Gabo, as he is known by his Colombia countrymen, usually writes... Read more
Publié le Sep 29 2000 par Walker E. Rowe III

5.0étoiles sur 5 Insightful Reading
If one were not familiar with the kidnappings that have occurred in Columbia, one might just believe this was a brilliant piece of fiction. Read more
Publié le Aoû 30 2000 par Enrique Torres

5.0étoiles sur 5 To live under the guerillas sword.
I read News of a kidnapping(Noticias de un Secuestro) of colombian writer, Gabriel García Márquez in spanish, and for me it was one of those book that I found myself cryng while... Read more
Publié le Juil 23 2000 par Adriana Villanueva

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How can anyone think that one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century, who also happened to be a journalist, could write anything that was shallow is beyond me. Read more
Publié le Juil 23 2000 par Justin Martin

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