by Gabriel García Márquez · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447315147
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«Noticia de un secuestro» is the journalistic chronicle by Gabriel García Márquez, published by RBA in hardback (254 pages, in Spanish).
García Márquez returns to journalism to narrate the real kidnapping of ten people, including journalists and relatives of politicians, by hitmen of the Medellín cartel. The book reconstructs the tension of those months, with drug trafficking pressuring Colombian institutions, and portrays a society marked by violence and easy money.
The work was originally published in 1996; this edition is from 1999 and belongs to the Nueva Narrativa collection.
It will interest readers of narrative journalism and true crime, and those who want to know García Márquez's side closest to reportage.
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.
