News of a Kidnapping

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News of a Kidnapping is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez that recounts a series of high-profile abductions carried out by Colombian drug cartels in the early 1990s.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
non-fiction book
about Colombian government
Medellín Cartel
Pablo Escobar
war on drugs
author Gabriel García Márquez
awardReceived Orhan Kemal Novel Prize
basedOn real events
countryOfOrigin Colombia
genre journalistic literature
non-fiction
true crime
hasAdaptation News of a Kidnapping (television series)
hasAuthorNationality Colombian
hasISBN 978-0-679-45720-3
hasPart accounts of multiple kidnappings
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
literaryMovement Latin American literature
mainSubject Colombian drug cartels
drug trafficking in Colombia
hostage taking
kidnapping
medium print
narrativeForm reportage
nonFictionSubject Colombian history
journalism
organized crime
political violence
notableWorkOf Gabriel García Márquez
originalLanguage Spanish
originalTitle Noticia de un secuestro
placeOfPublication Colombia
publicationYear 1996
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Random House
setInLocation Bogotá
Colombia
setInPeriod early 1990s
timeOfStory 1990
1991
1992
translatedInto English
multiple languages

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