Gabriel Garcia Marquez – News Of A Kidnapping – First Edition 1997
£35.00
First edition, first printing of News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Marquez, published by Cape in 1997. A fine copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original grey cloth, with silver titling to the spine. In a near fine unclipped wrapper, bumping to head of spine and upper knuckle of rear flap fold, light shelf wear to rear panel.
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez is a gripping non-fiction account of a wave of abductions in 1990s Colombia by the Medellín drug cartel, led by Pablo Escobar. Focusing on the kidnapping of prominent journalists and politicians’ relatives, Márquez chronicles the victims’ harrowing experiences and the government’s struggles to respond. With his signature narrative power, he weaves a tense, deeply human story that exposes the terror, corruption and complexity of Colombia’s narco-driven political landscape.
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First edition, first printing of News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Marquez, published by Cape in 1997. A fine copy free from internal inscriptions, boards bound in publisher’s original grey cloth, with silver titling to the spine. In a near fine unclipped wrapper, bumping to head of spine and upper knuckle of rear flap fold, light shelf wear to rear panel.
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez is a gripping non-fiction account of a wave of abductions in 1990s Colombia by the Medellín drug cartel, led by Pablo Escobar. Focusing on the kidnapping of prominent journalists and politicians’ relatives, Márquez chronicles the victims’ harrowing experiences and the government’s struggles to respond. With his signature narrative power, he weaves a tense, deeply human story that exposes the terror, corruption and complexity of Colombia’s narco-driven political landscape.
