Cronica de una Muerte Anunciada / Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Paperback)

Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezManufactured By: Vintage Espanol
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781400034956
Publisher: Random House Spanish
Publish Date: 10/1/2003
Buy.com Sku: 33905221
Item#: BMC493
Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 0.5T
Pages: 128
 
Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrii un asesinato desconcertante 27 anos atras, con la determinaciin de descubrir la verdad. Todos parecen estar de acuerdo en que Bayardo San Roman, silo unas horas despues de su matrimonio con la bella Angela Vicario, la devuelve por deshonrada a la casa paterna. La atribulada familia fuerza a la novia a revelar el nombre de su primer amante; y los hermanos gemelos de ella anuncian su intenciin de matar a Santiago Nasar por haber deshonrado a su hermana.
Sin embargo, si todos sabian que se iba a cometer un asesinato, por que nadie trati de impedirlo? Cuanto mas se sabe de este asunto, menos se comprende, y cuando la historia al fin se precipita a su inesperada conclusiin, una sociedad entera --no silo un par de asesinos-- esta siendo enjuiciada.
 
 
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez began his career as a journalist for a series of liberal South American newspapers in the late 1940s. Eventually, he began to write fiction, and became part of "The Boom", the second generation of Latin-American writers. Many of his early works were dark and melancholy, influenced by Kafka. In the mid-'60s, Garcia Marquez went through a period of writer's block, but emerged from it with the idea for his masterwork, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE set the standard for a literary style that would come to be called Magical Realism. Many of his stories take place in the fictional town of Macondo, a location that seems inspired by William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, and is based on Garcia Marquez's own village of Aracataca. Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. He is a close friend of Cuban President Fidel Castro and as a result was denied entry to the United States for 33 years, though afterwards he also become a friend of President Bill Clinton. After surviving a bout with cancer in the 1990s, Marquez published MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES (2004) and in 2008 was rumored to be finishing another novel.

 
 
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El día que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo. Había soñado que atravesaba un bosque de higuerones donde caía una llovizna tierna, y por un instante fue feliz en el sueño, pero al despertar se sintió por completo salpicado de cagada de pájaros. «Siempre soñaba con árboles», me dijo Plácida Linero, su madre, evocando 27 años después los pormenores de aquel lunes ingrato. «La semana anterior había soñado que iba solo en un avión de papel de estaño que volaba sin tropezar por entre los almendros», me dijo. Tenía una reputación muy bien ganada de intérprete certera de los sueños ajenos, siempre que se los contaran en ayunas, pero no había advertido ningún augurio aciago en esos dos sueños de su hijo, ni en los otros sueños con ár

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