
- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2014
- ISBN:
- 978-0-241-96862-8
- Pages:
- 122
CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
"On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and why..."-