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037			_cGifted _nN.K Kannan Menon Foundation
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bMAR
100			_aGabriel Garcia Marquez
245			_aNEWS OF KIDNAPPING
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260			_aNew York _bAlfred A Knopf _c1997
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500			_aThis 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.
650			_aLiterature
650			_aSpanish, Portuguese, Galician literatures
650			_aSpanish miscellaneous writings
650			_aSpanish language literature outside of Spain Hispanic South America Colombia and Ecuador
650			_aColombia
700			_aEdith Grossman (tr.)
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999			_c195621 _d195621