by Gabriel García Márquez · Ediciones Universal · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447301669
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«Crónica de una muerte anunciada» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez published by Ediciones Universal in hardcover, with 116 pages, in Spanish.
In a Caribbean town, the investigation of a murder brings together testimonies that reconstruct the hours before the crime of Santiago Nasar, announced by the Vicario brothers to restore their sister's honor. The novel interweaves collective memory, rumors, and omens to explore shared guilt and fatality.
This edition belongs to the collection Narrativa Actual. Autores de Lengua Española, number 19. The work was originally published in 1981 in Spanish.
Suitable for readers aged 15 and up; it frequently appears in school reading lists and serves as a gateway to García Márquez's narrative.
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.
