Fiction
News of a Kidnapping
An Alfred A. Knopf edition of Gabriel García Márquez's 1996 journalistic account of Pablo Escobar's kidnappings of Colombian journalists and politicians. The prose is controlled, the research is extensive, and the violence is reported rather than sensationalized. The Knopf binding is the usual sturdy trade format, with the dignified cover that the house gives to international authors of stature. Knopf gave it the plain black-and-white cover the house uses for serious international reportage. Ideal reader: the reader who wants to see what happens when a novelist turns to nonfiction, or the Latin Americanist who needs a corrective to the romance of the narco narrative.
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