Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Softcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345310020 ISBN 13: 9780345310026

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1984

Synopsis

"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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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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" 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
"

About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0345310020
• ISBN 13: 9780345310026
• Binding: Paperback