Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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3.8 • 133 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Gabriel García Márquez is best known for his hefty classics Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, but this slim novella is a hidden gem that’s every bit as gorgeous and captivating. Santiago Nasar’s death isn’t a spoiler—the character’s fate is spelled out on page one. The gripping mystery unfolds around the bizarre circumstances of his murder and why no one in his close-knit village lifted a finger to stop it. Chronicle of a Death Foretold reads like a documentary about a real-life crime, plainly laying out the facts so we can draw our own conclusions. Sprinkled with exuberant touches of García Márquez’s trademark magic realism, the novel turns the classic detective story on its ear.
Customer Reviews
Strange yet captivating
The book is rather strange, the setting with that characters seem to pull ideas from all sides of the spectrum. Interesting read for all readers that like hard to understand books.