News of a Kidnapping
News of a Kidnapping (Noticia de un secuestro) is Gabriel García Márquez's non-fiction account of kidnappings by Pablo Escobar's Medellín Cartel in Colombia in 1990, first published in Spanish in 1996. Knopf issued the first American English edition in New York in 1997.
- Editions tracked
- 2
- First edition
- Record, 1996
The first edition of News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez was published by Record in 1996. We track 2 editions.
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Setting and characters
- Set in
- Colombia
- Characters
- Maruja Pachón, Alberto Villamizar, Francisco Santos, Diana Turbay, Pablo Escobar, César Gaviria, Hernando Santos Castillo, Nydia Quintero Turbay
- Genre
- non-fiction
In print
- Editions recorded
- 36 on Open Library, 7 in English
- Wikipedia
- Articles in 12 languages
From Wikidata and Open Library, both CC0. A prize or a new adaptation often lifts demand for the first printing.
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Who published the first edition of News of a Kidnapping?
The first edition of News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez was published by Record in 1996.
How many editions of News of a Kidnapping are there?
We track 2 editions of News of a Kidnapping, including 1 first edition. Each has its own page with how to identify it.
Where these facts come from
- News of a Kidnapping, Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
- News of a Kidnapping editions, Open Library (openlibrary.org)
- Noticia de un secuestro: editions list, Open Library (openlibrary.org)
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