Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

‘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 was 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 it. Twenty-seven years later, an unnamed man arrives in town to try to piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. What happened to Santiago, he asks, and whose hands bear his blood? A novella of deep power and moral weight, and shot through with Márquez’s characteristic inventiveness, Chrorúcle of a Death Foretold is a detective tale like no other. A work of high explosiveness - the proper stuflf of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel that shows how a whole community is to blame for a murder which is dressed up as an aflfair of honour’