He had sold the rest, but the one at the fair was special because it had been signed by Gabo. , by Gabriel Garca Mrquez, was stolen at the Bogot International Book Fair. At other times he worked as an editor and once did publicity for the J. Walter Thompson office in Mexico City. His prize was a first edition book from 1967. Then I opened it to the page with the inscription and said, yes, this is my book, and I started to cry. We know they were going to sell it for more than 120 million pesos. . I was waiting for them to take me to his office. Thank you for listening to Radio Ambulante. Its huge. How can that be? And that they had already identified and intercepted him. And when he got to the stand. They hired two security guards who were only tasked with watching the bookstore, and on top of that, they agreed that one person on their staff would be at the cases at all times. A first edition copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garca Mrquez, was stolen at the Bogot International Book Fair. They, meaning fair security. lvaro went back to his house. Camila: He said that no one was going to settle down until that book was found. lvaro: If he could give me a discount. The first thing I thought was, how am I going to face lvaro when I see him?. And I turned around and saw that the book was missing. Camila: More than a year ago, in May 2015. But what are their names, man? She awakens and he puts a small bundle in her lap while he goes to the bathroom. And lvaro told him: Edgar: That the book was priceless but the ACLI had to answer for this. To ask for the phone number of the person in charge of Telfono Rosa. lvaro told me that the squad car was driving at full speed down the Transmilenio lane to avoid traffic. A lot of people found that absurd. In his Nobel lecture in Stockholm, he declared: "This, my friends, is the very scale of our solitude . Supervisor: When they said, hey, come here, sargeant. Whats going on, man? Theyre trying to sell that book. What? Yeah. And who are they? I dont know, theyre some guys from La Perseverancia.. Thats not news for Telfono Rosa. lvaro just arranged the books and made a verbal agreement with David that lvaro was the only person who could touch his books. In 1982, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Camila: He got out and the shopkeeper, before giving him the book. And then people would be a little more cooperative. We have a lot of contact with a number of merchants, lets call them, the good and the bad ones. Garca Mrquez sent the first three chapters of 100 Hundred Years of Solitude to Carlos Fuentes, who along with the Argentinean writer Julio Cortzar was an early fan and supporter. He had a huge headache. Each stroke, each seemingly monotonous rant, is intentional and gives strength to the whole. Its the only version I have of what happened. Daniel: The people in charge of investigating crimes in Bogot. Are you sure you want to remove #bookConfirmation# She told him that she was going to write the story herself and send it to eltiempo.com. This makes Damaso a hard character to like. Camila: And then people would be a little more cooperative. I mean, I have been to that book fair. Like the idea that there was something weird about this version of the story. And in Montevideo I really like to walk down a street called Calle Tristn Narvaja, which is a street that is full of secondhand bookstores. Carolina Guerrero is the CEO. Its shrink-wrapped No, not that one. Find us on NPR One in your app store. Before we go back to our story I want to tell you about another NPR podcast, one about music, called Alt.Latino. Camila: He picked up his satchel and left. I answered, Hello?. The SIJIN is right in the middle of downtown Bogot. But instead he was very controlled. A first edition copy of. lvaro needed a moment before he could start the interview. Camila: I have no idea, but you can imagine that he or she might threaten him or something, right? They say that they are meeting on a foot bridge near the neighborhood. Camila: I know, he talks really fast, its almost like he doesnt even stop to breathe. But he hadnt even thought about the media. Show me any old book you see. And sometimes he would show me books and I would have to say man, thats a new book. And you would think that a thief is ready for something, dont you think?. He was at en event at his bookstore when he found out the news was everywhere. One of his stories, "There are No Thieves in This Town," was filmed by an experimental group for presentation at the 1965 Locarno Film Festival. Camila: They took lvaro, David, Edgar, Luca and two other women who were in charge of taking care of the display case to the fairs security office. what am I supposed to say? Garca Mrquez says that he again began writing, "straight off without a break, and afterwards made a great many corrections on the manuscript, made copies, and corrected it again." Gracias, Gabo. But at one point David decided to stop giving interviews. In person? Daniel: What does that mean? The story is all over the world.. And you start to feel like a thief, like youre the one whos guilty, because of the interrogation. That was the version I heard, the version that was in the press. Commissioners recently approved the purchase of a property at 7992 Soquel Drive in Aptos near the Aptos Village Square shopping center. They are absolutely magisterial." The day-to-day life of the colonel, which doesn't amount to much, is handled with the precise detail of a painter. Instead I said, yes, of course.. lvaro: They were asking me, Where did you get the book, how much did it cost, how did Garca Mrquez inscribe it for you, why did he inscribe it for you, where were you, who had the keys? And I said, Me, I was the only one who had them. How do you know you are the only one? Because they told me I was the only one.. Camila: Yes, 120 million. He said that they had found the book in a box in the neighborhood La Perseverancia, in downtown Bogot. And she says lvaro, you have no idea what kind of shit storm this has caused. And I started at the most obvious place: The National Police. The blackman takes the blame for Damasos crime. And I dont want to tell him, but I have to. You won't find any mention of levitation or flying carpets or crocodile children. News, local stories, and your favorite podcasts. And you would think that a thief is ready for something, dont you think?. Police: National Police line, good morning. Yes, those. I told him, I dont want to talk right now and I hung up. I followed people who walked past me up to the door before they could leave and I asked them to open their bags. I dont know. And, well, we already know how that call went. So that Saturday afternoon Luca was helping at the cash registers when a friend came to visit her and asked her who had the keys to the display cases. I mean what am I going to do? Camila: Yes. Then they told him he had to go to a press conference. I should say something and do something very meaningful so it seems like Im doing something. Its like really absurd because it was like, not this, this is bigger than me and I have no idea what Im going to do. Camila: By Monday, this was already the story of the day in all of the newspapers, broadcasts and news bulletins. Radio Ambulante tells the stories of Latin America. Scenes of the colonel making coffee or checking the mail are heartbreaking ruminations on old age that stay with the reader like easy memories. Its that very same feeling that Edgar had. And finally, the vendor. GPS: You have arrived at your destination. Anyone can come to see it, but always under the supervision of one of the officials in the room. Im Daniel Alarcn. And as soon as I got there Luca told me weve been robbed. And if you hear about it or they come by to try to sell it, youd better give us a call.. The rest of the Radio Ambulante team includes Luis Trelles, Fe Martnez, Elsa Liliana Ulloa, Barbara Sawhill, and Caro Rolando. "Diary of a Shipwrecked Sailor. Until Friday, around two in the afternoon, he went back to one of the bookstores on the intersection of streets 10 and 13. There was another girl who started crying, another bookseller, for no apparent reason because she didnt have anything to do with what was happening, but it was just seeing all of the commotion. Yes, it will close. I was laughing at that point. Start studying There Are No Thieves in THIS Town, No One Writes to the Colonel Set 3, pp. Daniel: But that was on Sunday, right? YOU are an adventurer, and the merchants of There was nothing there. Camila: The lieutenants desk was the same as the others. There were women who said Im no thief! Camila: There were women who said Im no thief! Taking out the cards, like they were shit to me, and leaving them on the desk. May I speak with the press department of the police, please? For all of his accolades and awards, Garcia Marquez never got too comfortable in his success. . The major calls the press chief and tells her the whole story. The officers took me to a major and then I retold the whole story: about Radio Ambulante, the theft, the authorization. Memory Changes. And I turned around and saw that the book was missing. If Luca is calling me, its because its important. The shopkeeper pointed out where it was. They asked the police in that sector for help. He said that no one was going to settle down until that book was found. "Now you'll pay for our twenty dead men," he says, and then we understand that the man we're dealing with is no honest official. There are no ghosts, no gypsies. The one he had loaned the book to. Reading that little novel an exercise in the seemingly endless possibilities of fiction proved to be a transformative experience for both of us. Camila: Not much. He was at en event at his bookstore when he found out the news was everywhere. Yes. Why would the theft of a single book mean so much to a country like Colombia? But basically what you need to understand is that SIJIN is local and is dependent on the DIJIN, which is national. The music is by Luis Maurette. based on a story by Juan Rulfo. It was wrong. Daniel: And what about the price? I even started to be a little afraid that I would open a bag and find it. Camila: Thats the bad part. This contradicts the title. I hold the rank of supervisor. When they get out to run, they hear gunfire. Interviews with cultural icons like Rita Moreno and Carlos Santana as well as contemporary vanguards like Calle 13 or author Junot Diaz. The one he had loaned the book to. The thing is, they found the book but not the thief. The next day a friend went to visit him at the fair and lvaro told him about the robbery. lvaro: Now that I think about it, it really was a flimsy lock. Garca Mrquez had died a year earlier, in April 2014, and this book fair was being held in his honor. And on Saturday, May 2nd, the day the book was stolen and just three days before the end of the fair, about 73 thousand people went to the event. About 40 thousand dollars. I freaked out. Camila: Ok, so lvaro bought this book in 2006. Camila: Edgar figures around 300 people or thereabouts. He said, I cant believe it. Its unbelievable. It was a collaboration, incorporating everybody's ideas, the director's, the actor's. 174 times the minimum wage, enough to buy, I dont know, a small apartment in the southern part of Bogot. Why would the theft of a single book mean so much to a country like Colombia? Edgar and the guard stood at the exit of the Pavilion and told everyone who tried to leave. Not knowing what he was going to do, Edgar put the box in storage and ordered that no one touch it. And on top of that the Telfono Rosa comes out once a week. All he managed to think was, I dont want more books from the collection to get stolen. So he asked Luca to remove all of lvaros books and store them in a safe place. Their encounter with the dead man changes them, from the inside out. Meanwhile, Edgar and the other guard kept on searching everyone who tried to leave. I was in total disbelief. What are you trying to find?. As a collector, lvaro knew exactly what a first edition looked like. Daniel: In other words, to a valuable book, to a media scandal. Camila: The display cases where they were being displayed had been set up by pavilion organizers. The inscription says: To lvaro Castillo, the book peddler, like yesterday and as always, from your friend Gabriel. A lot of people found that absurd. The worst possible. lvaro: Where did that number come from? But at the time no one thought it was a shoddy lock. It seems like there was some kind of agreement to turn over the book, and thats that. So he said ah well, Ill sell it to you for six dollars. Publisher. So he had to split his time between that stand and the Macondo stand, and there he had to interact with thousands of visitors, telling them in great detail about all of the books in his collection. Edgar didnt talk to me at all. An officer met me and brought me to a small office filled with empty cubicles. And the lieutenant was nowhere to be seen. In other words, people who sell things with dubious origins. That was the phrase the supervisor used. Did you know NPR has an app? He knew there was nothing he could do. I would feel unworthy of standing in this place that was his if I were not fully aware that the colossal tragedy he refused to recognize thirty-two years ago is now, for the first time since the beginning of humanity, nothing more than a simple scientific possibility. Yes, 120 million. I wasnt friends with Garca Mrquez. lvaro: It took four or five hours, it was this frustrating thing that wouldnt end. Four in Cuba, two in Colombia and this one in Uruguay. It does, however, bring to our attention the author's grasp on subtlety, on. Others said they couldnt speak because they believed they were about to catch the group that had stolen the book. Two booksellers from Bogot. Those were tears of joy. Daniel: But then when is it supposed to close? But well, moving past the technicalities, when lvaro arrived at the stand he was really impressed to see all of these people, including criminologists who were dusting for fingerprints. So much so that he didnt even ask Luca for many details. Edit. Palomino: We know they were going to sell it for more than 120 million pesos. And he began writing the work, which he says he had been brooding over since he was sixteen. And I saw on Facebook someone posted, Hooray! They live in a small rented room near the center of town. My name is Luca Fernanda Buitrago Montaez. Meanwhile, his friends had arranged for his two recent books to be published. Sort of. How is it that they didnt catch the thief? This Study Guide consists of approximately 49pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - But the supervisor started to check other areas to see if they had been offering the book as well. So they started to cause a kind of traffic jam. We showed up and they said, listen, there was a guy here who was interested but hes going to go to Preservencia to buy it there because those guys are pissed off and dont want to come over here because they know the book is a touchy subject.. Daniel: Yes, yes, the express buses in Bogot. And he said return my book or pay for it. Why? But instead he was very controlled. Everyones spirits were as low as they could be. He showed me the inscription and then he showed me something else. It was in Uruguay. Learn more about Radio Ambulante and this story by visiting our website: . I was very limited in what I could do and I appreciated then that in the novel the writer has complete control." Everything was very strange. Camila: That night the story was aired on national and international news. So, do you want to see the book? I have no idea, but you can imagine that he or she might threaten him or something, right? Realized it was a trick. Camila: So they agreed the donation would be on Thursday, May 14th at 4pm. What are you trying to find?. I knew this was a very serious problem but what I was worried about was the institutional issue. And its like, oh, no, And when she tells me, they stole lvaros. Removing #book# Were very, Translation: There Are No Thieves in This Town. Now that I think about it, it really was a flimsy lock. 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