Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

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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 García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

Published: 1 May 2014
ISBN: 9780141917474
Imprint: Penguin eBooks
Format: EBook
Pages: 128

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Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories.

His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004).