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Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, Gregory Rabassa ISBN: 0-394-53074-8 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 March, 1983 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (80 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Book gets boring
Comment: The first couple chapters of "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez begin to tell the story of a very interesting murder. From the start the reader knows there has been a murder, however the reader does not know they will be reading the first few chapters of the book over, and over again, throughout the novel. True to his journalistic style of writing, Marquez told this true story to expose the details of a scandalous murder. The man who was killed was a good friend of the author, and he went by the name of Santiago Nassar. He was a rich man who was murdered for being accused of taking the virginity of a woman in his small Spanish town. Even though "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is true, it contains more stylistic elements than most fiction. For a true story the reader can find a surprising amount of foreshadowing, satire, and irony. Marquez thoroughly investigated the crime, but carefully only conveyed the most important facts, and in a very objective way. He embellishes certain ideas add to the satire, etc., but the book still shows how intricate real life can be. This novel promises to be very interesting, but becomes somewhat disappointing when the reader is forced to read the same story many times over. Marquez makes the story more interesting each time he tells it, but it is still the same story. It seems as each couple chapters is a different draft, and the author used them all.
Rating: 4
Summary: A metaphysical murder mystery
Comment: A man returns to the town where the murder of Santiago Nasar took place 27 years before.
Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning on the Monday he was going to be killed by the twins Pedro and Pablo Vicario. The narrator is told by Placida Linero, Santiago Nasar's mother, that within the hour, her 21 year old son would be dead.
Why did the twins want to kill the proprietor of The Divine Face, the ranch he had inherited from his father? Why did they chose that particular morning, when the bishop was due to visit the village? Why wasn't Santiago Nasar aware of the fact that somebody had shoved an envelope under the door of his house with a written document warning him that he was going killed, stating in addition the place, the motive and other quite precise details of the plot? How could the murder have been committed despite the fact that nearly all the inhabitants of the town knew that it was inevitably going to happen?
The investigation of this murder takes the quality of a hallucinatory exploration into the past. The narrator's quest for the truth leads him into the darkness of human intentions, a truth that perpetually seems to slither away. This small masterpiece is one of the greatest classics of the 20th century.
Rating: 4
Summary: Engaging story about fate, love, women, and culture
Comment: This novella just grabs you and sucks you in until you've finished the last page. I read this book for a book club and I think I enjoyed it even more because I had a chance to discuss the engaging language and themes with other readers. After all, there's so much to be said about characters such as Angela Vicario, whose mother said that her daughters were perfect because "any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer." The depiction of women and love is not unique to the Latin American culture, but Gabriel Garcia Marquez's language makes it more vivid and captivating. The story is apparently based loosely on a true event, which makes it all the more intriguing. It's about a man whose imminent death is discussed throughout the town that he lives in, yet no one is able to stop it or at least warn him about it. I started reading it and got to around page 15 when I realized I wasn't paying enough attention and had to start over again from the beginning. I've heard of quite a few people getting off to a slow start with it. There are a lot of different names thrown at you, and though it's a chronicle, it's not chronological, so it's a story that needs to be read with some focus. Once you're in that focused mindset though, it's a quick read and I highly recommend it.
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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0140119906 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060932678 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 0140256369 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060919647 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 20 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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