3.5
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
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3.5
“Worth the hype!”
“Phew needed a whole day to digest that.
I remember a few days before anyone recommended this in the reading club, I asked my mom (huge reader, has been a bookworm since she was 7) what books would she consider the best she read… among her list was this one, so when it was suggested in the poll, I voted immediately.
This was painful to say the least, I don’t know what I expected from that title, but when it started, I NEEDED to be told explicitly that Santiago didn’t do it, and I say this because I come from a background where, not long ago, and perhaps somewhere now, honor killings are a thing, and the culture of collective complicity is very much present, but that was never the case in the story, we’re just left hanging there about if he did or didn’t, because it’s not the point.
The fact that they all just… knew and let it happen, and despite saying it’s because they didn’t believe it would happen, they stood and watched as he was getting murdered, felt very… ritualistic, the fact that it was so so preventable, but also oddly unpreventable is.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the language, (I switched between English and Arabic but I specifically loved the Arabic one because it felt alive, like an original Arabic novel, not a translation), and the way the story was nonlinear while coming off as so, we got the backstory of all characters but did so in relation to Santiago himself, (skipping the narrator) which grounded the story in our main plot, it was beautifully written.
This was a very simple story in its idea, but it was presented in a very impactful way, I thought I’d smell Santiago in his last moments, when he was returning home with his guts between his arms, the twins as they battled insomnia until they weren’t, the town just… watching.
This was a great read.”
About Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.
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