by Gabriel García Márquez · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781400034956
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«Crónica de una muerte anunciada» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Vintage in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
The novel returns to the town where everyone knew in advance about the murder of Santiago Nasar: Ángela Vicario, returned on her wedding night, points to him, and her twin brothers go out to look for him while no one stops them. With testimonies and time jumps, the chronicle explores honor, fate, and collective guilt.
The work was originally published in 1981; this Vintage edition appeared in 2003. Gabriel García Márquez, a Colombian, won the Nobel Prize.
For readers of literary fiction who want a short novel by the Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
