Chronicle of a Death Foretold

When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home, where her humiliated mother beats her and her brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar. With Angela’s brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town knows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez ‘s birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

‘A work of high explosiveness – the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel that shows how a whole community is to blame for a murder which is dressed up as an affair of honour.’ The Times ‘A tour de force of moral and emotional complexity.’ Angela Carter, Guardian ‘A masterpiece.’Evening Standard

Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date: 06/03/2014