Chronicle of a death foretold

About this book

Santiago Nasar is murdered in a small town despite widespread knowledge of the threat against him. Years later, a returning investigator tries to reconstruct the circumstances from accounts that do not agree.

The question is not simply who carried out the killing, but how so many people could know about it without preventing it. Gabriel García Márquez turns the reconstruction into an examination of shared responsibility, public judgment and the uncertain evidence left by memory.

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