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Set in Bogota, Colombia, the book narrates the kidnapping of a group of elderly women held hostage by Pablo Escobar's ruthless Medellin cartel. Intense personal suffering and psychological drama are set against the backdrop of a chaotic and corruptpolitical scene. The result is a highly charged story of lives in the balance. This brave piece of reportage is every bit as engaging as Marquez's fiction. 'I have never read anything which gave me a better sense of the way Colombia was in its worst times' - John Simpson in the Daily Telegraph
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Marquez uses his novelist's instinct for emotional drama to give the reader a wonderfully immediate sense of his subjects' ordeal: their spiraling hopes and fears, their fantasies of escape, their desperation and despair. (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times)
Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder (The Sunday Times)
A story only a writer of Márquez's stature could tell so brilliantly. A tour de force (Mail on Sunday)
The great strength of the book is the authority of its details. There is so much here that, as we say, no one would make up (Guardian)
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Compellingly readable. A book with all the panache of Márquez's fiction, hitting home rather harder (The Sunday Times)
A story only a writer of Márquez's stature could tell so brilliantly. A tour de force (Mail on Sunday)
The great strength of the book is the authority of its details. There is so much here that, as we say, no one would make up (Guardian)
A masterly 'non-fiction novel' about the Colombia drug wars.
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- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140267840
- ISBN 13 9780140267846
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