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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez · 1927–2014 · Colombia

Originally Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Spanish) · translated by Gregory Rabassa

Why it matters

Everyone in town knows Santiago Nasar will be killed at dawn, and nobody stops it. A murder investigated like scripture: the whole town complicit, the reader too. His tightest, most perfect machine.

At a glance

crime & noirmagical realism
Difficulty 5/10fast pace120 pages

A compact multi-perspective reconstruction requires piecing together a fragmented timeline.

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