Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling moving story exploring injustice & mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera ' 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' 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 & piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk To at last understand what happened to Santiago & why 'A masterpiece' Evening Standard'A work of high explosiveness
- the proper stuff of Nobel prizes An exceptional novel' The Times' Brilliant writer brilliant book' Guardian