Volume 44, Number 15 · October 9, 1997
Report from an Undeclared War
By Alastair Reid
News of a Kidnapping
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman
Knopf, 291 pp., $25.00
In late February of this year, just as Colombia was preparing to celebrate his seventieth birthday on March 6, Gabriel García Márquez announced from his house in Cartagena that he would not be present for the occasion. Colombia, he said, 'had become an uncomfortable country, uncertain and troubling for a writer,' and he was exiling himself to Mexico, where he has lived intermittently for much of his writing life.
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