News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez

News of a Kidnapping

Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman

291 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative tense medium-paced
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THIS ASTONISHING BOOK by the Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez chronicles the 1990 kidnappings of ten Colombian man and women--all journalists but one--by the Medellín drug boss Pablo Escobar. The carefully orchestrated abductions were Escoba...

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Moods

informative 82%
tense 72%
dark 60%
emotional 45%
reflective 25%
challenging 22%
sad 22%
adventurous 15%
inspiring 5%
hopeful 2%
mysterious 2%

Pace

medium 67%
slow 27%
fast 5%

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3.78

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