Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
Chronicle of a Death Foretold 

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garc a M rquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and 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 and piece together the truth from the contradictory testimonies of the townsfolk. To at last understand what happened to Santiago, and 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