lvaro answered and said Whats up, David? And I said, listen lvaro, they stole your One Hundred Years of Solitude.. And Ill explain: Edgar and Luca had told the fair security about the robbery. Camila: Yes. He decided to go to Macondo. Also, lvaro was the only person with the keys to the cases. I was waiting for them to take me to his office. GPS: You have arrived at your destination. He noted signs on the way advising that dogs and Mexicans were prohibited; he thus found himself barred from hotels because of his dark Latin complexion, the bigoted clerks mistaking him for a Mexican. So, of course, the first thing the supervisor does is call the chief of police to tell him that he has this information, and his chief tell his own boss to tell him. Camila: Sort of. Supervisor: I mean, a lot of years are going to go by but the case isnt going to close. Today it is in the collections section, along with the other more valuable books in the National Library. Well, I tried everything to find out where Palomino got that 40 thousand dollar figure, but I didnt get an answer. No One Writes to the Colonel is published in Colombia. Came up to me looking very friendly and said, You dont know how proud we are to have recovered your book. And on his desk there was a cardboard box for a router. Luca Buitrago: My name is Luca Fernanda Buitrago Montaez. In this context it means something like ridiculous. So he said ah well, Ill sell it to you for six dollars. And it was the first time the ACLI was in charge of the bookstore at the fair. There Are No Thieves in This Town Summary Damaso is a 20-something layabout and petty thief married to a middle-aged washerwoman named Ana. Or about 20 thousand dollars. I freaked out. Heres the book. And the guys? I dont know. But before he left he asked to use their restroom. Well, obviously I wasnt going to get in an argument with him and say, no, what are you talking about?. Camila: Very hard. lvaro wanted it that way, as an official public act. Yes, those. I told them about the story I was doing and that I wanted to interview the lieutenant. He was at his own bookstore, almost on the other side of the city, in the middle of an event with a writer. 174 times the minimum wage, enough to buy, I dont know, a small apartment in the southern part of Bogot. Not even me. And the lieutenant was nowhere to be seen. He held a press conference just to talk about the incident. And if you hear about it or they come by to try to sell it, youd better give us a call.. "The first line almost knocked me off the bed," Garcia Marquez said in a 1981 interview with The Paris Review. THERE ARE NO THIEVES IN THIS VILLAGE En este pueblo no hay ladrones. Camila: Not much. And Ill explain a little: David was in charge of the Macondo stall at the Bogot Book Fair. Camila: So he thought from now until I get to my house and send the email I will have lost a whole day. For instance, people started coming up with really crazy and sometimes very disrespectful theories. What a country. I wasnt friends with Garca Mrquez. Its called NPR One and it offers the best from public radio and beyond. There are no ghosts, no gypsies. Why? When they get on the highway, near the neighborhood, one of the police officers says: Supervisor: There are some guys down there.. . When asked where the bill should be sent, to him or to the town, the mayor replies: "It's the same damn thing.". Interviews with cultural icons like Rita Moreno and Carlos Santana as well as contemporary vanguards like Calle 13 or author Junot Diaz. You guys who are going to be downtown, a book by Gabriel Garca Mrquez was stolen in one of those bookstores, so you need to get in touch with your contacts about it.. And it lasted for about half an hour until. If they had bags from another store, we asked them to open them. And you would think that a thief is ready for something, dont you think?. And lvaro was a secondhand book collector. Happy and absolutely incredulous. And they came with four or five motorcycles. And when David told him that, lvaro. And, Daniel, do you know what Transmilenio is? He asked Is this your book?. Camila: Yes, up to 20 years. Then he confesses that he has robbed the pool hall and taken the billiard balls in hopes of selling them. Everything was very strange. Supervisor: Ah, yes. Nabo: the Black Man Who Made the Angels Wait, Someone Has Been Disarranging These Roses, The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories. what happened?. Damaso realizes that Ana has been "waiting for him every minute through the whole night" (77). A coven in Bogot. What are you trying to find?. Yes, very weird. The last few sentences are more than telling. I spoke with press chiefs, commanders and lieutenants. Camila: When David found out that the story was already all over the media, he got fair security on the phone, a retired colonel. Listen: Supervisor: So, if you want to buy a book and you know that on the intersection of streets 10 and 13 youll get your socks stolen with your shoes still on, well youre going to turn around, do you understand? George C. (George Charles) Husmann. lvaro: I said, this is really funny. 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. And lvaro told him: That the book was priceless but the ACLI had to answer for this. Camila: The officers jump out of the cars, and he tells me that there were four or five guys there when the police came and they started running. Camila: They arrived at the police station and the chief of police, Palomino. But on Friday, six days after the robbery, lvaro was in his bookstore, working, when a friend called him and said: Its just that my dad heard it did. Juan Vidal is a writer and cultural critic from Miami. According to what the supervisor told me, 50 million pesos. This narrative prospective is there so you feel bad for Damaso, however he is not respectful of his wife, and instead, is full of himself. Camila: Well, it may be a stretch to say everyone, but certainly Im not exaggerating when I say that Gabo is one of Colombias cultural heroes. Camila: It will only close the moment someone is captured. But at the time no one thought it was a shoddy lock. And I turned around and saw that the book was missing. And what it meant for the whole country. But not just any copy. Publisher. We are calling from who knows where, who knows where. They called me from Mexico, Argentina, Europe, France, Spain. Press Chief: Major, but the book that was stolen at the last Book Fair? Edgar: And I would tell them A first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude is missing.. At some point various men from security arrived along with the manager of the pavilion. lvaro left Macondo and went to his stand. Camila: lvaro just arranged the books and made a verbal agreement with David that lvaro was the only person who could touch his books. Undetermined. And no one has been able to explain where that number came from. What can be done? David: I really didnt want to call lvaro. From all over the world. The DIJIN and the SIJIN is very confusing even for us. Camila: As a collector, lvaro knew exactly what a first edition looked like. Their encounter with the dead man changes them, from the inside out. But they didnt. Of the presumed eight thousand first copies presumed because back in 67 when it was published, records were not as precise as they are today lvaro has found seven. And I said to myself crap, what am I going to do? I mean, at that point I was much more worried and I really wanted to go figure out what had happened with the police because I was really worried that this was going to turn into a big story in the media and we hadnt even filed a report. I met with him on that day at the door of the library. I met him and he gave me the nickname libroviejero [man with the old books]. When I saw the hole, it took less than a second to look over the books and realize it was that book: it was. That there must have been some boss yelling at someone: this has to be found because its getting found. Then someone did something. And he opened the box and there was the book. It was the second time I cried. story of the day in all of the newspapers, broadcasts and news bulletins. Daniel: In other words, to a valuable book, to a media scandal. His desk was called the "Cave of the Mafia"; there, he worked for eight to ten hours a day for eighteen months. I was very limited in what I could do and I appreciated then that in the novel the writer has complete control." Thats the director of the Association of Independent Booksellers, right? And that they had already identified and intercepted him. Listen: So, if you want to buy a book and you know that on the intersection of streets 10 and 13 youll get your socks stolen with your shoes still on, well youre going to turn around, do you understand? Rodolfo Palomino: We have accomplished something very important, very important. And on top of that the Telfono Rosa comes out once a week. lvaro: Where did that number come from? Youre crazy, what are you thinking?!. Juan Vicente Valbuena: As well as anyone who acquires it. The ones that have a restricted lane. Almost impossible. Find us on NPR One in your app store. He looked at me quietly with this terrified look on his face but he didnt talk to me. Yes, it is massive. Its shrink-wrapped No, not that one. It was an expression like I dont understand whats happening.. lvaro spoke briefly and finally gave the donation. We went to another place. And this supervisor spends his time walking through downtown Bogot because thats where most robberies happen. He said that the National Police were investigating the case and that he had to make it clear that not only were the individuals who stole the book responsible, but also anyone who bought it. We are back with Radio Ambulante. If Luca is calling me, its because its important. There was a major, there was a colonel, there was a captain from the Heritage department, there was an officer from the SIJIN and from the DIJIN. Luca, for example, said this to me: Well, it doesnt make sense that the police, knowing who was involved, didnt hold anyone accountable for anything, right? We went to a car and parked in a parking lot in the basement. Camila: That night the story was aired on national and international news. The first time I tried was in June 2015. Columbia University awards him an honorary doctoral degree. In 1970, 100 Hundred Years of Solitude was published in English by Harper & Row. I mean, it wasnt all of the first editions because they wouldnt all fit, but it was something representative of his work. Yes, up to 20 years. Anyone can come to see it, but always under the supervision of one of the officials in the room. A relevant case is when a person is robbed and that person has some important societal status. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago." Daniel: What does that mean? And they decided to act. Ana protests that he could have been shot, and (read more from the There Are No Thieves in This Town Summary). While Edgar was searching people, Luca knew that she had to call someone, but she thought: Luca: I cant tell lvaro myself. Consuelo: What the loss of this book meant to the country. based on a story by Juan Rulfo. 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