by Gabriel García Márquez · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467204346
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«Crónica de una muerte anunciada» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (157 pages, in Spanish).
Crónica de una muerte anunciada is based on a real event in Gabriel García Márquez's hometown: the whole town knows the Vicario brothers plan to kill Santiago Nasar to avenge their sister Ángela's sullied honour, but no one manages to stop them. With a fragmented narration of several voices, the work explores destiny, collective guilt and fatality.
Originally published in 1981, this edition is from 2003. The work was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction category in 1983.
For readers of Latin American fiction and literature students, recommended reading age 15 and up.
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.
