by Gabriel García Márquez · Random House · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439701095
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«Noticia de un secuestro» is the journalistic chronicle by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Random House in hardback (328 pages, in Spanish).
Journalistic chronicle about the real kidnapping of Maruja Pachón and other victims by drug-trafficking networks in Colombia. The work reconstructs the captivity, the suffering of the families and the tension surrounding the events, combining the account of the facts with García Márquez's narrative style.
The work was originally published in 1996. The back cover of this edition includes a quote from the beginning of the story and the ISBN 84-397-0109-8.
For readers of chronicle and narrative journalism, as well as for followers of Gabriel García Márquez.
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.
