num_pages: 143
description: Setting out to reconstruct a murder that took place 27 years earlier, this chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time, through the contradictions of memory and moments lost in time. Its irony gives the book the nuances of a political fable.
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: 181695
places: Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books