News of a Kidnapping

First American Edition, hardcover, in fine condition. The front board is stamped in gilt with the author's GGM monogram, and the spine carries matching gilt lettering. The dust jacket is bright and clean, showing only light wear to the edges. The book is tight, appears unread, with pages crisp, unmarked, and deckle edged throughout. First American edition of Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1997. García Márquez, the Colombian 1982 Nobel laureate in Literature, reconstructs the 1990 kidnapping of ten Colombian citizens, most of them journalists, carried out on the orders of Medellín cartel leader Pablo Escobar as leverage against extradition to the United States. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, winner of the 2006 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation.