Chronicle of a Death Foretold

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--on trial.

 

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, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/07/2003
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9781400034710

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 5
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 22763 / Chronicle of a Death Foretold

About the Author
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.