num_pages: 122
description: "ON THE DAY THEY WERE GOING TO KILL HIM, SANTIAGO NASAR GOT UP AT FIVE-THIRTY IN THE MORNING TO WAIT FOR THE BOAT THE BISHOP WAS COMING ON."When newlywed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Román are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home that very night, where her humiliated mother beats her savagely and her two brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar.As he wakes to thoughts of the previous night's revelry, Santiago is unaware of the slurs that have been cast against him. But with Angela's brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town knows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.
language: English
title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
titlecomplete: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
characters: Pedro Vicario, Bayardo San Román, Pablo Vicario, Ángela Vicario, Santiago Nasar
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Latin American, School, Literature, Latin American Literature, Classics, Novels, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 181693
places: Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd