{"product_id":"news-of-a-kidnapping-by-garbiel-garcia-marquez","title":"News of a Kidnapping by Garbiel Garcia Marquez","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780224050029\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonothan Cape London, 1996\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 291 Pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent Condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis astonishing book by the Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian men and women--all but one a journalist--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they were to surrender.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the highest corridors of government to the domain of the ruthless drug cartels, we watch the unfolding of a bizarre drama replete with fascinating characters: César Gaviria, the nation's cool and secretive president; Diana Turbay, a famous television journalist and magazine editor; three indomitable women who are imprisoned for miserable months in a small room with a light perpetually on; an eighty-two-year-old priest with a mission to bring the regime and the cartel to the negotiating table; and Escobar himself, the legendary drug baron who changes his bodyguards daily and maintains a private zoo with giraffes and hippos from Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAll of this takes place in a country where presidential candidates and cabinet officers are routinely assassinated; where police go into the Medellín slums to murder boys they think may be working for Escobar; but where brave and honest citizens are trying desperately to make democracy survive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn international best-seller, News of a Kidnapping combines journalistic tenacity with the breathtaking language and perception that distinguish the writings of Gabriel García Márquez. It draws us into a world that, like some phantasmagorical setting in a great García Márquez novel, we can scarcely believe exists--but that continually shocks us with its cold, hard reality\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IH PENTZ BOOKSELLERS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46523810087074,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/9780224050029.jpg?v=1769433202","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/news-of-a-kidnapping-by-garbiel-garcia-marquez","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}