Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Description: This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder 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 readers are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.

Review Quotes: "Exquisitely harrowing ... very strange and brilliantly conceived ... a sort of metaphysical murder mystery." --The New York Times Book Review

"This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away." --The New York Review of Books

"Brilliant ... A small masterpiece ... we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez's Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants." --San Francisco Chronicle

"As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate ... an exquisite performance." --The Christian Science Monitor

"A tour de force ... In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche ... not merely a family but an entire culture." --The Washington Post Book World