by Gabriel García Márquez · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330280952
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«Chronicle of a Death Foretold» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Picador in paperback (122 pages, in English).
«Chronicle of a Death Foretold» reconstructs the murder of Santiago Nasar at the hands of the Vicario brothers to wash away the honour of their sister Ángela. Through contradictory testimonies and leaps in time, the narrator investigates what happened and why, and the novel explores honour, fatality and the collective guilt of a closed community.
English translation by Gregory Rabassa. Work originally published in Spanish as «Crónica de una muerte anunciada» (1981).
For readers interested in the narrative of Gabriel García Márquez and in magical realism; also used as school and university reading.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
