News of a Kidnapping | 
pickWandering around my house looking for a background for a picture...
So the book - nonfiction on the experiences of ten people Pablo Escobar had kidnapped for leverage as he was about to turn himself in (1990-1991) - two would be killed, one during a rescue attempt. Márquez avoids the dramatic here, though. Instead he walks through these experiences slowly. It‘s comes across as enlightening and admirably respectful, but also, well, it‘s slow.
BarbaraBB I know the feeling, wandering about the house! And I really enjoyed this book! 5y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB I didn‘t know anyone else in the world had read it!! 🙂 I‘m kidding of course, but it‘s never come up anywhere for me before. But there‘s always likely to be one super well read person around here whose read something like this 😉(On wandering about the house - I was thinking I wasn‘t the only one doing that for Litsy ☺️) 5y
BarbaraBB Lol, I read it in Dutch even, so there must have been a translator who read it too 😉. There was this period in my life when I was super interested in Pablo Escobar, I think that‘s why I read it! (edited) 5y
