### Review “Exquisitely harrowing . . . very strange and brilliantly conceived . . .a sort of metaphysical murder mystery.”—\_The New York Times Book Review\_ “This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering dar
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
✍ Scribed by Gabriel García Márquez; Gabriel Garcia Marquezgabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Vintage International
- Year
- 1981;2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 202 KB
- Edition
- 1st Vintage International ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 140003471X
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✦ Synopsis
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, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire societynot just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.
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