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First published in Spanish as Noticia de un Secuestro by Mondadori (Grijalbo Comercial, S. A.) 1996
This English translation first published in Great Britain by Random House 1996
Published in Penguin Books 1998
This edition published 2014
Copyright (c) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1996
Copyright (c) Mondadori (Grijalbo Comercial, S. A.), 1996
All rights reserved
The moral right of the author and translator has been asserted
ISBN: 978-0-141-91733-7