Chronicle of a Death Foretold / Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa
By: García Márquez, Gabriel [autor]
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Contributor(s): Rabassa, Gregory [traductor].
New York : Vintage International, 2003Edition: First edition.Description: 120 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: texto Media type: no mediado Carrier type: volumenISBN: 9781400034710.Uniform titles: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. inglés Subject(s): Death -- Fiction | Colombian literature | Colombian novel | Honor -- Fiction | Murder -- Fiction | Revenge -- Fiction | Colombia -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 863.44 / Summary: 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 name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.
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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 name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.
Translation of: Crónica de una muerte anunciada.
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