Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice
and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One
Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Santiago Nasar is
brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers. All the townspeople knew it
was going to happen - including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent
the killing. Twenty seven years later, a man arrives in town to try and piece
together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at
last understand what happened to Santiago, and why. . . As one of the pioneers
of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American
literature, Gabriel García Márquez has received international recognition for
his novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. Those
published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch, Bon Voyage
Mr. President, Collected Stories, The General in his Labyrinth, In the Evil
Hour, Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Leaf Storm, Living to Tell the Tale,
Love in the Time of Cholera, Memories of Melancholy Whores, News of a
Kidnapping, No-one Writes to the Colonel, Of Love and Other Demons, The Story of
a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims.