Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Vintage International) - Softcover

"Exquisitely harrowing . . . very strange and brilliantly conceived . . .a sort of metaphysical murder mystery."--The New York Times Book Review

"This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away." -The New York Review of Books

"Brilliant . . . A small masterpiece . . . we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez's Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants."--San Francisco Chronicle

"As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate . . . an exquisite performance." -The Christian Science Monitor

"A tour de force . . . In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche . . . not merely a family but an entire culture." -The Washington Post Book World

The Nobel laureate weaves a story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.