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 n
Chronicle of a death foretold
✍ Scribed by Garcia, Marquez Gabriel
- Book ID
- 107492976
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
SUMMARY: ''EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered.''A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
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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 n
### 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