First of all, I need to thank Themis for recommending this masterpiece of a story. Themis is also the person who shall be blamed for the expansion in my TBR as I add all of Marquez's work. In the hands of another author, this story would have been four times as long, drawn out, and boring. Marque...
Gabriel Garcia Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, following “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, which was published the year before. This short novella (122 pages) was generally lauded as a masterpiece and translated from the original Spanish, it is clearly a complex literary e...
The plot unfolds in one day and is given through testimonies of people who have some kind of connection with the death of Santiago.However one-dimensional the characters may be, they don't manage to evolve at all in the time frame which this novella gives them, and although the plot is not particula...
In a tiny, coastal Latin American town, Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Román get married and have the biggest party the town had seen! But soon after, Bayardo returns his new wife to her shocked family after he realizes that her virginity has been spoiled. In an effort to restore her honor, her twin...
This is a clever novella. It is about a murder that everyone knows is going to happen in a small town and that no one does anything to stop. As the narrative continues, it becomes obvious that the murders do not want to actually commit the murder, but are doing it only out of a misguided sense of ...
So, about a month ago The Book People was running a promotion where you could buy the complete works of Garcia Gabriel Marquez for £9.99. I'd really wanted to read Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, and so it seemed like a reasonably good deal to collect the whole set. I ...
R4 book at bedtime.http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00yyffj/Book_at_Bedtime_Chronicle_of_a_Death_Foretold_Episode_1/Blurb - Heat and dust and South American passion take the listeners somewhere intense in this compelling story from Nobel prize-winner Garcia Marquez. This is a classic 'why dunni...
This is a rare example of a novel being too short. Marquez's narration begs to continue and I wanted to know more about the people. Yet, on second thought, it is just right. Marquez is not interested in the mystery or the murder as much as the reaction of the community and their reluctant to prevent...
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