by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140262476
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«Noticia de un secuestro» is the journalistic chronicle by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Penguin in paperback (336 pages, in Spanish).
García Márquez reconstructs the kidnapping of ten people ordered by Pablo Escobar in 1990, when drug traffickers pressured the government to avoid the extradition of their members. The work portrays the anguish of the hostages and their families, and the terror that marked Colombian society during the height of drug trafficking.
For nonfiction readers interested in narrative journalism and the recent history of Colombia marked by drug trafficking.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
