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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Gregory Rabassa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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| Hardcover | 9780394530741

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"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murderContinue

"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."
A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.


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  • Angel Gabriel

    We had suspected for a long time that the man Gabriel was capable of miracles, because for many years he had talked too much about angels for someone who had no wings, so that when the miracle of the printing presses occurred we nodded our heads know ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • His books just don't impress me the way they do other people. I thought this one was okay, but nothing great. At least it was shorter and more concise than Love in a Time of Cholera.

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