Chronicle of a death foretold

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Angela Vicario’s new husband is furious when he discovers she’s not a virgin, and he returns her to her family home. Angela’s mother beats her and her brothers set out to find the man who violated her. Waking to the thoughts of the previous night’s revelry, Santiago Nasar is unaware that there are people who want to kill him.

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcìa Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

‘On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on’

Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen – including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why. . .

‘A masterpiece’ Evening Standard

‘A work of high explosiveness – the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel’ The Times

‘Brilliant writer, brilliant book’ Guardian

Additional information

Weight 0.097 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.9 × 0.8 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

122

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

863.64 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K