Chronicle of a Death Foretold Contributor(s): García Márquez, Gabriel (Author), Rabassa, Gregory (Translator) |
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ISBN: 140003471X ISBN-13: 9781400034710 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2003 Annotation: A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--is put on trial. Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Magical Realism - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1210(Not Available) |
Series: Vintage International |
Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.24" W x 8" L (0.28 lbs) 128 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Catalog Heading - Language Arts - Curriculum Strand - Language Arts |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 22763 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
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Publisher Description: A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--is put on trial. |
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