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News of a Kidnapping, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

News of a Kidnapping, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1998

$7.00 USD
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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 the Medellin drug cartel, and one of the richest men in the world.

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