TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
AU  - Edith Grossman (tr.)
TI  - NEWS OF KIDNAPPING
SN  - 9780375400513
U1  - F 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A Knopf
KW  - Literature 
KW  - Spanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures 
KW  - Spanish miscellaneous writings 
KW  - Spanish language literature outside of Spain Hispanic South America Colombia and Ecuador 
KW  - Colombia
N1  - This 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.

From 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
ER  -