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Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garca Mrquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

On the day they were going to kill him Santiago Nasar got up at fivethirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on

Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brothers All the townspeople knew it was going to happen including the victim But nobody did anything to prevent the killing Twenty seven years later a man arrives in town to try and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk To at last understand what happened to Santiago and why

A masterpiece Evening Standard

Brilliant writer brilliant book Guardian

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2008 P Penguin Audio 2022