Because the whole thing started to break down. Camila: No. I was in total disbelief. George C. (George Charles) Husmann. We are back with Radio Ambulante. Camila: This is the vice-attorney general at the time, Juan Vicente Valbuena. Book Quotes "There are no thieves in this city #juice" Other books like "There are no thieves in this city #juice" Home Manufacture and Use of Unfermented Grape Juice. I asked the supervisor if that meant they werent looking for the culprits anymore. What can be done? When asked where the bill should be sent, to him or to the town, the mayor replies: "It's the same damn thing.". Synopsis. David: Because the whole thing started to break down. Supervisor: We have a lot of contact with a number of merchants, lets call them, the good and the bad ones. Damaso is a night prowler who frequents the local bar and pool hall. That was the first year the invited country was a fictional place: Macondo. So much so that he didnt even ask Luca for many details. Which means the news wouldnt come out for another seven days. Daniel: What does that mean? The worst possible. And lvaros book was on display along with others from his private collection, in an exhibit inside a bookstore that David was running. Stream ad-free with Amazon Music Unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet. EDITED BYDaniel Alarcn, Silvia Vias y Martina Castro, SOUND DESIGN BYAndrs Azpiri y Camila Segura, The San Juan de Dios hospital was closed to the. The other staff at the Macondo store, the ones who were always there. Its hosted by Felix Contreras, and Felix. It was in Uruguay. Im Daniel Alarcn. Which is to say, it would be nice if all of the cases the police handled where recommended cases and they were just as efficient when they deal with the robbery of an average, ordinary citizen. I told him, I dont want to talk right now and I hung up. They hadnt filed a complaint. A first edition copy of. Thats the director of the Association of Independent Booksellers, right? Camila: That first edition of One Hundred Years wasnt the only one that lvaro had acquired in his life. 20 years in prison for stealing a book? Under regular security procedure, they shouldve informed the police. Gabriel Garcia Marquez and I have a few things in common: We both discovered Kafka while studying in Bogot, and we both knew we wanted to write forever after borrowing copies of The Metamorphosis. Hey man, you heard anything? No, man.. Its called NPR One and it offers the best from public radio and beyond. Yes. Daniel: But its really hard to search that many people, isnt it? And I added a note to the book which I wrote on the first page. 2023 Course Hero, Inc. All rights reserved. Which means the news wouldnt come out for another seven days. I also asked lvaro what he knew about that. We investigate all kinds of crimes dealing with kidnapping and theft in all its forms. Daniel Alarcn: Did you know NPR has an app? No. David wasnt just in charge of that bookstore, he was also the president of the Association of Independent Booksellers, the ACLI [by its initials in Spanish]. lvaro went back to his house. lvaro left Macondo and went to his stand. Press Chief: Major, but the book that was stolen at the last Book Fair? It starts with a call from David Roa to lvaro Castillo. He was at en event at his bookstore when he found out the news was everywhere. . Presenter: And some rather discouraging news is coming to us from the culture page. He was tired, he hadnt been sleeping well and he could hear his phone going off, even when no one was calling. Camila: Edgar thought that not much time had passed between when they had been robbed and when they noticed. Damaso finds Ana sitting on their bed, fully clothed. Lupa is our new app for Spanish learners who want to study with Radio Ambulante's stories.More info at lupa.app. We are calling from who knows where, who knows where. They called me from Mexico, Argentina, Europe, France, Spain. Camila: Yes. Discover the stars who skyrocketed on IMDb's STARmeter chart this year, and explore more of the Best of 2022; including top trailers, posters, and photos. Camila: Eight police officers went. It was wrong. A sardonic Mexican melodrama from 1964, directed by Alberto Isaac and based on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez story, about a . Commissioners recently approved the purchase of a property at 7992 Soquel Drive in Aptos near the Aptos Village Square shopping center. 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. The display cases where they were being displayed had been set up by pavilion organizers. Supervisor: A relevant case is when a person is robbed and that person has some important societal status. Edgar: And he said return my book or pay for it. The right thing to do was to call him and tell him myself because I was the person he had loaned the books to. Dont miss out on an interactive map that shows the books journey throughout Latin America: EDITED BYDaniel Alarcn, Silvia Vias y Martina Castro, SOUND DESIGN BYAndrs Azpiri y Camila Segura, Our ninth season is just one week away! He didnt give a lot of details about how the operation went. And they decided to act. He was at his own bookstore, almost on the other side of the city, in the middle of an event with a writer. David: I really didnt want to call lvaro. Meanwhile, Edgar and the other guard kept on searching everyone who tried to leave. Columbia University awards him an honorary doctoral degree. lvaro: They were like CSI or something. News, local stories, and your favorite podcasts. The original title of the novel had been Este Pueblo de Mrida (The Town of Dung). And the lieutenant was nowhere to be seen. Edgar didnt talk to me at all. I answered, Hello?. I ran to the door and told the security guards that from that moment on no one could leave without being searched. 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.. Language. He went home and told his wife: "Don't bother me, especially don't bother me about money." Everything was very strange. Well, he hadnt set foot in the fair since the robbery. His prize was a first edition book from 1967. Some of the eight police officers went after the men. Camila: Exactly. in spite of this, to oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. He held a press conference just to talk about the incident. During this period almost six years he wrote only one short story. Some news outlets, for example, said that they had found it inside of a house and others said it was at a street stand. I was almost expecting him to start cursing and shouting and get violent. 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.. Supervisor: When they get out to run, they hear gunfire. And while it can be easy to focus most of our praise on One Hundred Years of Solitude, undoubtedly his most important novel, let us not forget the stories. This is what he told me: Supervisor: No, the investigation is still ongoing. Because that creates insecurity. Yes, it will close. He went out to walk and he didnt say anything to anyone for some time. lvaro: It took four or five hours, it was this frustrating thing that wouldnt end. How may I help you? Damaso is a 20-something layabout and petty thief married to a middle-aged washerwoman named Ana. The book wins the Primera Plana prize in Argentina on June 20. During all this, David wasnt at the fair. I want to get this over with fast. And I said, jokingly, if this isnt done by Thursday, Im donating it to the National Museum on Friday.. "It was a very bad time for me," he has confessed, "a suffocating time. The dentist informs the mayor that the tooth must be removed using hot forceps and no anesthesia. In 1982, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. When he had finished the novel, his wife informed him that they owed twelve thousand dollars. And Ill explain: Edgar and Luca had told the fair security about the robbery. The Theme of Solitude. What Edgar cared about was getting the scumbag who stole the first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Mexico, 1965. And you start to feel like a thief, like youre the one whos guilty, because of the interrogation. Edgar: I got there to see what was going on. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. And that General Palomino wanted to deliver it to him in person. Camila: That youre not going to go where they steal your socks with your shoes still on. Happy and absolutely incredulous. Camila: lvaro still didnt tell anyone anything. Scenes of the colonel making coffee or checking the mail are heartbreaking ruminations on old age that stay with the reader like easy memories. The album is a majestically chaotic tapestry held together by moments of sweet serenity blended into gales of noise and disharmony. And she says lvaro, you have no idea what kind of shit storm this has caused. The shopkeeper pointed out where it was. Daniel: But then when is it supposed to close? is one of the most important newspapers in the country and Telfono Rosa is a news section or rather, a gossip section about celebrities in Colombia that comes out once a week, every Sunday. And I started at the most obvious place: The National Police. He wrote film scripts, some in collaboration with Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes; several of these scripts became movies. I have no idea, but you can imagine that he or she might threaten him or something, right? It seems like there was some kind of agreement to turn over the book, and thats that. Camila: So he thought from now until I get to my house and send the email I will have lost a whole day. "I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. There was a very diligent group of police. He had sold the rest, but the one at the fair was special because it had been signed by Gabo. Camila: He said that no one was going to settle down until that book was found. There WERE no thieves in this town, he corrected them emphasizing on each word, but after the media attention, there will be, he added. Daniel: In other words, she didnt follow Davids instructions? lvaro: Now that I think about it, it really was a flimsy lock. lvaro: 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. If they had bags from another store, we asked them to open them. 174 times the minimum wage, enough to buy, I dont know, a small apartment in the southern part of Bogot. Ok, so lvaro bought this book in 2006. Not even me. Well, thats exactly what I wanted to know. What are you trying to find?. The major calls the press chief and tells her the whole story. . Camila: Sort of. Their number? I dont know, those guys came to sell the book but they are asking for a lot.. Camila: But Luca is the kind of person who almost never calls. Find top songs and albums by There Are No Thieves In This Town including Of the Things I Would Not Have Omitted to Note and Treasure, Within Your Little Hour of Grace and more. But he hadnt even thought about the media. He said that they had found the book in a box in the neighborhood La Perseverancia, in downtown Bogot. Were very, Theres a superhero in Argentina. But that was on Sunday, right? So everyone who went into the pavilion would see the bookstore. In April of this year, 2016, almost a year after his book was recovered, lvaro got some news from the attorney generals office. But finally the major told me sure, I could interview the officer that had taken me to his office because he was the one who conducted the whole operation. They say that they are meeting on a foot bridge near the neighborhood. 1996. The gunfight at the O.K. NPR One joins you this Thanksgiving while you travel or wait in line or wait for a friend. Camila: Very hard. And that proves to us that Colombians, like Garca Mrquez says, are capable of the worst as well as the best. He knew there was nothing he could do. Edgar: That there must have been some boss yelling at someone: this has to be found because its getting found. Then someone did something. Camila: They described them as a young olive-skinned man who was about 1.6 meters tall [about 53] and a young blonde woman. lvaro still didnt tell anyone anything. And finally, the vendor. Camila Segura is the senior editor at Radio Ambulante. Edgar thought that not much time had passed between when they had been robbed and when they noticed. I dont know what kind of expression I had because I couldnt see it, but I know it didnt look like I was angry. Read the Spanish transcript here.. Read an English translation here. How can that be? The worst. Camila: But if they do capture someone, then it will close. Were only first editions by Garca Mrquez, which made a kind of general timeline starting with his first published book to his last. I want to get this over with fast. And I said, jokingly, if this isnt done by Thursday, Im donating it to the National Museum on Friday.. There they took their statements. to doze (verb) to sleep lightly. David: If Luca is calling me, its because its important. Camila: The officer asked us not to use his name. Edgar: He stopped in front of the display, saw that the book was missing and put his hands on his head. Camila: Everyones spirits were as low as they could be. Camila: Thousands upon thousands of people were going to go through there. But Luca remembered that the agreement was that only lvaro could handle the books. And then people would be a little more cooperative. In 1970, 100 Hundred Years of Solitude was published in English by Harper & Row. Yes, those. And I said, I dont know. So he said, Do you want me to give you the email of Telfono Rosa at. What the loss of this book meant to the country. Luca Buitrago: My name is Luca Fernanda Buitrago Montaez. What a country. And of course, the business owners dont want their clients to get robbed. Camila: Basically what he is saying is what all of us Colombians already know more or less: that the police give priority to cases involving more important people, people with money, famous people. It was a first edition, and worse still, one that Garca Mrquez signed for lvaro. 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. lvaro wanted it that way, as an official public act. Before the break, Camila was telling us about the robbery of a signed first edition of. And the protocol goes on and on. Each stroke, each seemingly monotonous rant, is intentional and gives strength to the whole. We went to a car and parked in a parking lot in the basement. Camila: In other words, he wasnt just worried about how he was going to pay for the book, but also about what would become of the association. And well I I was already freaking out. 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. Camila: Then he wrote the facts: when it was stolen and recovered, and it ends with this: lvaro: Today, May 14th 2015, I am handing it over to the National Library of Colombia so that it may remain there and serve as a symbol of gratitude for all Colombians. But we have to close this circle with the capture of those responsible. Camila: When David found out that the story was already all over the media, he got fair security on the phone, a retired colonel. And I saw on Facebook someone posted, Hooray! So the supervisor starts going by all the book stands in the area and says to the vendors: Supervisor: Listen, brother, a book got stolen around here. Its the only version I have of what happened. Camila: Then they told him he had to go to a press conference. When I saw the hole, it took less than a second to look over the books and realize it was that book: it was One Hundred Years of Solitude. Let us not trick ourselves into thinking the big books are the only ones worth our time. Thank you for listening to Radio Ambulante. His desk was called the "Cave of the Mafia"; there, he worked for eight to ten hours a day for eighteen months. Camila: lvaro took the book to Colombia and it ended up being part of that exhibit I mentioned before, at the Book Fair, along with 31 other books from his private collection. When we check the box, the first thing we do is see whats inside. Presenter: It seems like yet another typical event in the unusual and magical country of Macondo, but it is real. From what I understand, it isnt open because they arent looking for the culprits, but it isnt closed because they havent found them. I dont know. They were about to close the fair and the police never arrived. The assistant of General Palomino, the chief of police, was calling him. He wanted the whole thing to be over, so early that week he called Consuelo Gaitn, the director of the National Library, and told her: Please, I want to make this donation really, really quickly. 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.. It says: I bought this copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude in Montevideo, Uruguay. 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. When they left the interrogation it was practically nighttime. Heres the book. And the guys? I dont know. Were poor here and we live far away, they say in my village. by Jonathan Rosenbaum October 26, 1985. All I could say was sure, of course, we have to answer for this. I thought I dont know how but we have to answer for this.. I answered, Hello?. And they indicated to us more or less where the guys were going to meet. No, she felt it was more important to stick to the agreement they had made with lvaro. 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. I could tell that it was deeply painful for him because his eyes were watering and his mouth was trembling. lvaro: Were going to send a squad car for you.. At other times he worked as an editor and once did publicity for the J. Walter Thompson office in Mexico City. Camila: The thing is, they found the book but not the thief. Camila: Well, I tried everything to find out where Palomino got that 40 thousand dollar figure, but I didnt get an answer. David: I said, lvaro, youre not going to believe it but I think Im happier than you are.. They looked like something out of the last century: there were two panes of glass one was sliding and they were held shut by a little lock, a keyhole with a saw-toothed shaped plate. Others, including the supervisor, realize that something had dropped to the ground: a box. 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