Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
A Novel

Author: Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

Narrator: Bernardo de Paula

Unabridged: 2 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2021

Synopsis

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven 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.

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

About Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His translations include works by Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Franco. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.

About Bernardo de Paula

Bernardo de Paula has played in voice-over roles in cartoons, television, movies, video games, and more.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian on July 08, 2007

I own about 70 copies of illegally-photocopied versions of this book so I can use it with my students in class. And unlike most books I teach, I read this one every year. Why? 'Cuz it's an unbelievable text. I firmly believe that Santiago Nasar is one of literature's greatest Christ-figures. Many of G......more

Goodreads review by Jim on February 28, 2021

Truth in the title: the title tells us exactly the plot of the novel. A man is stabbed to death. He’s a fairly wealthy young man (he’s 21) who runs a cattle ranch inherited from his father. There’s an interesting ethnic twist: His father’s family speaks Arabic at home and his family's housekeeper on......more

Goodreads review by Federico on November 18, 2024

Unavoidable. Santiago Nasar has taken over the family ranch after his father’s death, and now lives merrily with his mother, Placida Linero; the cook, Victoria Guzman; and her daughter, Divina Flor. The day starts normally; wakes up in the morning, chats with this mother over breakfast, and sets o......more

Goodreads review by Jibran on November 06, 2019

There had never been a death so foretold. Márquez's oeuvre may be roughly divided into two streams of writing: the magician of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera and the journalist-adventurer of this novel and News of a Kidnapping. The ominous world of magic realism closes......more

Quotes

“Brilliant…A small masterpiece…we can almost see, smell, and hear Garcia Marquez’s Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants.” San Francisco Chronicle

“As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate…an exquisite performance.” Christian Science Monitor

“Exquisitely harrowing…very strange and brilliantly conceived…a sort of metaphysical murder mystery.” New York Times Book Review

"A tour de force…Not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche…not merely a family but an entire culture.” Washington Post Book World

“Bernardo de Paula captures the voice of the fictional unnamed narrator…De Paula’s transitions between Spanish and English are fluid, and he never breaks the melodic cadence of the prose. His vocal characterizations are believable…Throughout his narration, de Paula acts as a storyteller, re-creating the scenes of the murder clearly and engagingly.” AudioFile

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