num_pages: 120
description: "EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
titlecomplete: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
characters: Ángela Vicario, Pablo Vicario, Santiago Nasar, Pedro Vicario, Bayardo San Román
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Latin American, Classics, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels, School
ratings_count: 181730
places: Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Knopf