News of a Kidnapping (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Political history
- Time of Work: 1990
- Setting: Colombia
- Principal Characters: Maruja Pachón de Villamizar, Beatriz Villamizar de Guerrero, Alberto Villamizar, Marina Montoya, Diana Turbay, Nydia Quintero de Balcázar, Julio César Turbay, Azucena Liévano, Juan Vitta, Richard Becerra, Orlando Acevedo, Hero Buss, Francisco “Pacho” Santos, Hernando Santos Castillo, Rafael García Herreros, César Gaviria, Pablo Escobar Gaviria
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: Power, personal or social, Crime or criminals, Religion, Kidnapping, Drug trafficking or dealing, 1990’s, South America or South Americans, Law enforcement
- Locales: Colombia
In September, 1990, publisher Hernando Santos Castillo received word that his son Francisco had been abducted. His first reaction was to say “Thank God.” In many parts of the world, such a response might have been unthinkable, yet in the Colombia of Gabriel García Márquez’s News of a Kidnapping it was understandable. Abductions had become epidemic—but so had killings. As the author notes, “News of a kidnapping, no matter how painful, is not as irremediable as news of a murder.”
In News of a Kidnapping (originally published in 1996 as Noticia de un...
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