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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Gabriel García Márquez

3.9
(297 ratings)
122 pages1996Penguin Books IndiaISBN 9780140157543
Fiction
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García Márquez has composed a tour de force of moral and emotional complexity, with a low profile, without fireworks' Angela Carter in the Guardian A mesmerizing work...the novel sets out to reconstruct a murder that occurred twenty-seven years before...Márquez's chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time ...An unusual and original work: a simple narrative so charged with irony that it has the authority of political fable.' Bill Buford in The Times Literary Supplement The book and its narrator probe slowly, painfully, through the mists of half-accurate memories,equivocations, contradictory versions, trying to establish what happened and why...Chronicle of a Death Foretold...is as haunting, as lovely and as true as anything García Márquez has written before' Salman Rushdie in theLondon Review of Books A virtuoso performance: a tour de force...In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, García Márquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche...not merely a family but an entire culture.' Washington Post Book World Exquisitely harrowing...Very strange and brilliantly conceived&of metaphysical murder mystery.' The New York Times Book Review

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Books India
Published
1996
Pages
122
ISBN
9780140157543
Language
en

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez

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