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'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 newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman 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.
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez
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- Released
- 2008
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 122
- ISBN10
- 0141032464
- ISBN13
- 9780141032467
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Love, Family, Classics, Relationships, Murders, School, Death, Society, Adapted for Film, Novellas, Spanish Literature, Revenge, Magical Realism, Weddings, Crimes, Latin American Literature, South America, Customs and Traditions, Latin America, Human Fates, Colombia, Colombian Literature, Virginity, Macondo
- First published
- 1981
- Original title
- Crónica de una muerte anunciada
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- 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 newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman 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.