Chronicle of a Death Foretold

9781400034710

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Gabriel García Márquez

Genre Fiction Books & Literature

Format Paperback

Dimensions 5.18 (w) x 7.95 (h) x 0.34 (d)

Pages 128

Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Date October 2003

ISBN 9781400034710

Book ISBN 10 140003471X

About Book

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.

Reviews

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

''Chronicle'' is not nearly so fantastic as Garcia Marquez's earlier novels. It contains a powerfully plausible plot - a dream-like detective story, really, that pursues the questions of why and how two young men have undertaken a brutal murder that they actually had not wanted to commit....I found ''Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' by far the author's most absorbing work to date. I read it through in a flash, and it made the back of my neck prickle. -- New York Times

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