News of a Kidnapping

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 291, [5]. Publisher's charcoal cloth boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket design by Jamie Keenan.

Translated by Edith Grossman. Originally published as Noticia de un secuestro by Grijalbo Mondadori, Barcelona, in 1996.

A non-fiction account of the orchestrated kidnappings of ten Colombian journalists by the Medellín drug cartel in the 1990s, for use as bargaining chips against extradition to the U.S. by cartel leader, Pablo Escobar. The author has talked to the survivors, read their diaries and reconstructed their ordeal. García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. "A non-fictional record of real events, but one so transformed by a brilliant story-teller that it must be called a novel." –John Butt, Times Literary Supplement