News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez

News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García MárquezTHIS ASTONISHING BOOK by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian man and women all journalists but one by the Medelln drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escobar's attempt to extort from the government its assurance that he, and other narcotics traffickers, would not be extradited to the United States if they were to surrender. From the highest corridors of government to

Benyamin’s wry and tender telling transforms this strange and bitter comedy of Najeeb’s life in the desert into a universal tale of loneliness and alienation

and his manager

authors Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles take their international bestseller Ikigai: the Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life a step further by showing you how to find your

Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage'

It can always throw up surprises

'To create today is to create dangerously'Camus argues passionately that the artist has a responsibility to challenge

adolescent cobbler's assistant

with its many quotations from previously untranslated letters

and sacramental worship

Not even when she’s faced with police questioning

It is the story of a dynastic struggle that provides a social

Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica