News of a Kidnapping
by Gabriel García Márquez
Colombia's darkest decade, reported from inside it.
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you want to understand what it actually felt like to live in a country held hostage by one man
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Ten people kidnapped by Pablo Escobar's cartel in 1990. Márquez spent years interviewing the survivors and their families to reconstruct what happened — not the spectacle but the human experience of it. Waiting. Negotiating. The Colombian government trying to manage an impossible situation. The hostages trying to stay sane. Journalism as the most intimate form of dispatch. Márquez proving that his gift wasn't magical realism — it was attention.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Colombia • Latin America
- Voice
- Written by a Colombian author
- Themes
- captivity
- Topics
- colombian drug war