Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 1981
Literary Fiction · ranked #218 in category
The whole town knows that Santiago Nasar is going to be murdered — including the men who will murder him — and yet no one prevents it. García Márquez's slim masterpiece tells the story backwards and sideways, as a reporter reconstructing the events that everyone knew were coming. A meditation on fate, honour culture and collective complicity.
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