News of a Kidnapping - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Fiction - Modern Fiction - ISBN: 0140267840, 0141032502, 0224050028, 0375400516, 0140267832 more

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This text narrates the kidnapping of Maruja, a well-connected journalist in her 50s living in Botoga, and of her sister-in-law, Beatriz, by the gangs run by Pablo Escobar, head of...
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A change of style for Marquez
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Advantages: easy to read
Disadvantages: if you read the preface you know the outcome.

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 ... Read review

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