How does it compare to audio works by the same author?
Very good
Advantages:
easy to read
Disadvantages:
if you read the preface you know the outcome .
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
This book marks a change for Garcia Marquez, whose best known books are works of fiction. In this novel, he tells the story of a journalist and her sister, kidnapped by guerillas in Colombia. It pulls no punches, and you get a real insight into what life was like for the two women in captivity. Marquez writes well in the journalistic style, making this an easier introduction to his work than something like "One Hundred Years of Solitude". As the book was written with the collaboration of the protagonists, you feel you are living the ordeal of their captivity with them, and with their families. The only drawback is that in the acknowledgements at the begining, the fate of some of the hostages is revealed. This doesn't detract from an excellent book, however.
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