Chronicle of a Death Foretold

✍ Scribed by Gabriel García Márquez

• Publisher: Perfection Learning
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 65 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0756943795

✦ Synopsis

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 darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away.” –_The New York Review of Books

*“Brilliant . . . A small masterpiece . . . we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez’s Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants.”—*San Francisco Chronicle_

“As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate . . . an exquisite performance.” –_The Christian Science Monitor

"_A tour de force . . . In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche . . . not merely a family but an entire culture.” –_The Washington Post Book World
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From the Trade Paperback edition.

Product Description

Setting out to reconstruct a murder that took place 27 years earlier, this chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time, through the contradictions of memory and moments lost in time. Its irony gives the book the nuances of a political fable.