Gabriel Jos茅 de la Concordia Garc铆颅a M谩rquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc铆颅a M谩rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He studied at the University of Bogot谩 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 wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, Garc铆a M谩rquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien a帽os de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Garc铆a M谩rquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.
Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del c贸lera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.
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 Garcia's books have Christ-figures, of course, but Santiago is Jesus with a twist. When the book starts, Santiago is portrayed as a bad man who is wasteful and immoral and violent. When he is fingered for taking the virginity of a non-whore, any reader would believe in his guilt.
But by the end of the book, it is obvious that Santiago did not commit the crime (Garcia hides the line where this is stated unequivocally, but it is there). But he is killed nonetheless (multiple times, actually) and the entire town, who did not stop the attack on Santiago, feels guilty for their inaction for the next twenty years.
It's such a brilliant idea that is told so exquisitely, that I can't think of a better sub-100 page book to read over a two day period. And my students can't, either, as I have never had a disappointed student. Ever.
Truth in the title: the title tells us exactly the plot of the novel.
A man is stabbed to death. He鈥檚 a fairly wealthy young man (he鈥檚 21) who runs a cattle ranch inherited from his father. There鈥檚 an interesting ethnic twist: His father鈥檚 family speaks Arabic at home and his family's housekeeper on occasion calls him 鈥渨hite man.鈥� Although the locals call his family 鈥楾urks,鈥� because they are Catholic, it鈥檚 likely they were Lebanese and arrived in Colombia (where the story is set) from the great mixing and melting pot of the Caribbean.
The title tells us all we need to know and very early on in the story we know why he was killed, so I鈥檓 not giving away any plot. Another wealthy man in town has just had the most extravagant wedding ever seen in the town. But the next morning the bridegroom 鈥榬eturns the bride鈥� to her family because she has been deflowered by the young man who will then be killed by her two brothers.
The day of the murder the brothers make no secret of their intentions. They wander around town telling people what they intend to do. By mid-morning just about everyone in town has heard them say they will kill him.
So why is nothing done? Everyone has an excuse. There鈥檚 a big commotion in town because the bishop is coming by riverboat to wave at folks and give the town a blessing. So even the priest thinks 鈥榯his is a criminal matter that doesn鈥檛 concern me.' Most folks assume it鈥檚 just 鈥榙runk talk.' The mayor has the police chief take away their hog butchering knives when they are seen sharpening them. (But they have plenty of knives.) Also it鈥檚 assumed they are talking to so many folks that someone will stop them --- and maybe they want to be stopped.
The story is told retrospectively from almost 30 years later. A fascinating read that under the author鈥檚 masterful writing, makes the entire story perfectly plausible. 鈥淲e killed him openly,鈥� Pedro Vicario said, "but we鈥檙e innocent.鈥�
A good read.
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Santiago Nasar has taken over the family ranch after his father鈥檚 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 off to take care of the ranch. Your last day usually starts like any other; but Santiago is going to die today, he just doesn鈥檛 know it yet.
This was one of my first Marquez books and one of the best I鈥檝e ever read by him. The whole plot felt mostly three stars, adding an extra star for the absolutely mind blowing last scene. It鈥檚 been decades and I still can鈥檛 forget the shock of that twisted horrifying ending, and probably never will. This novel may not be as good as Marquez鈥檚 masterpiece, 鈥淥ne Hundred Years of Solitude鈥�, but it was perfectly quick and impactful, and I think it鈥檚 a fantastic place to start with Marquez鈥檚 works.
*** I remember next to nothing of the movie (1987). I have rated it 4/10 on my IMDB account years ago so I guess that explains why. It wasn't memorable then and doubt it is now. Was planning to rewatch it but now thinking it's not worth it. Some movies don't age well. Stick with the book.
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Santiago Nasar se encarg贸 del rancho familiar desde la muerte de su padre, y ahora vive felizmente con su madre, Pl谩cida Linero; la cocinera, Victoria Guzm谩n; y la hija de ella, Divina Flor. El d铆a comienza normalmente; despierta por la ma帽ana, habla con su madre durante el desayuno, y se va a cuidar del rancho. Tu 煤ltimo d铆a usualmente empieza como cualquier otro; pero Santiago va a morir hoy, s贸lo que a煤n no lo sabe.
Este fue uno de mis primeros libros de M谩rquez y uno de los mejores que jam谩s le铆 de 茅l. Toda la trama se sinti贸 mayormente como tres estrellas, a帽adiendo una estrella extra por esa absolutamente inolvidable escena final. Han pasado d茅cadas y todav铆a no puedo sobreponerme al shock de ese retorcidamente horror铆fico final, y probablemente nunca podr茅. Esta novela tal vez no sea tan buena como 鈥淐ien A帽os de Soledad鈥�, pero fue perfectamente r谩pida e impactante, y creo que es un fant谩stico lugar para empezar con las obras de M谩rquez.
*** No recuerdo casi nada de la pel铆cula (1987). Seg煤n mi cuenta de IMDB la califiqu茅 4/10 a帽os atr谩s as铆 que supongo que eso explica por qu茅. No fue memorable entonces y dudo que lo sea ahora. Planeaba volverla a ver pero ahora creo que no vale la pena. Algunas pel铆culas no envejecen bien. Qu茅dense con el libro.
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Cr贸nica de una muerte anunciada = Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garc铆颅a M谩rquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, published in 1981. It tells, in the form of a pseudo-journalistic reconstruction, the story of the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario brothers.
Characters: Santiago Nasar, 脕ngela Vicario, Bayardo San Rom谩n, Pablo and Pedro Vicario
Tras esta particular reconstrucci贸n period铆stica o investigaci贸n criminal mediante la acumulaci贸n de declaraciones de testigos e implicados en la que se nos relata el discurrir de una espiral que va descendiendo lenta e irremediablemente, entre presagios, fatalidades y designios, hasta el centro de un crimen de honor que, como buen agujero negro, atrajo a sus protagonistas incapaces de escapar al drama que era su destino, me hizo un signo de adi贸s con la mano y se derrumb贸 de bruces en la cocina. Pero no ser谩 la 煤ltima vez que lo vea.
M谩rquez's oeuvre may be roughly divided into two streams of writing: the magician of and and the journalist-adventurer of this novel and . The ominous world of magic realism closes shop when Marquez switches his gears to journalistic storytelling. But may be not quite; because right from the opening scene an eerie premonition trails at the heels of Santiago Nasar and, do what he might, catches him unawares to punish him for a crime he might or might not have committed. In this novella the writer-narrator sets himself up to the task of investigating the events that led to the death so foretold.
You may call it a reportage of an impossible and inexplicable murder that could have been prevented with just a shout. You may call it story of a man who must pay for violating the unwritten code of honour when he is suspected of deflowering Angela Vicario, his best pal's sister, hours before she was to get married to another man. Or you may simply call it a story of an honour killing, but unlike other stories of this kind this is not yet another banal attempt aimed at soliciting public's disgust at the horrific practice, told from the moral high ground of an observer's point of view. It does not portray the entire value system backward and barbaric which stories of this kind are wont to do, but operates from inside the culture to report on the dynamics that lead to and make something like this possible. This objectivity sits at the heart of good writing and this sets M谩rquez apart from a bevy of writers who have produced stereotypical fictional accounts of a culture at war with itself.
I won't call it "unreliable narration" but rather a deliberate building up of ambiguity with respect to the victim's role: Was Santiago Nasar guilty of dishonouring Angela Vicario, or was there a big misunderstanding all along, made all the more complicated by a surfeit of circumstantial evidence? Here you have M谩rquez, the master investigative journalist, with the best implements of his trade, testing your powers of observation and turning you into a witness who is being strung along willy-nilly by a powerful voice. It's one of those novels where the process of telling a story is greater than the story itself. In other words, how it's told rather than what's told.
By the honour of Angela Vicario this is a story unequaled in its telling!
They had decided he had to die, yet they wished someone had stopped them. The assassins of Santiago Nasar had gone, but in vain, beyond the imaginable not to kill him. Among the villagers who heard the two Vicario brothers say that they would wash away their sister's honor, some did not believe it, and others who tried something failed with a lot of goodwill. Santiago Nasar died from multiple blows from his murderers. Will chance or fate, the death of a man depend on a tradition of honor and a combination of unhappy circumstances? The investigator - it seems to be Gabriel Garcia Marquez himself - seems to believe it. And then, Nasar was an Arab, which made him an ideal culprit in this small Caribbean village despite the lack of evidence. Although brief, this novel is teeming with contradictory sensations and feelings. Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes us into a wild and fascinating world. That's a colorful world, whimsical but authentic, sublimated by the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's admirable narrative imagination.
So wading my way through my 10-book Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez collection and having read 4 and given them each 2 stars or less - this is where perseverance finally gets of its ass and rewards me, as undeterred, I read this and lo and behold, I really enjoyed it! Why? One word - storytelling! This is just a wonderfully immersive and captivating story, of a death foretold! Now my curse is broken I hope the dam is bust and that my mind now 'gets' his work. A well deserved 8.5 out of 12. 2007 read
Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez who is best known for his One Hundred Years of Solitude penned a novella A Chronicle of Death Foretold based on real life events that he witnessed. In this novella, Marquez tells through the eyes of an unnamed narrator the events that lead to the murder of Santiago Nasar. It is in the characterizations of the personas this short book that we get a taste of Marquez' brilliance which won him many honors during his writing career.
Santiago Nasar is the only child of Ibrahim Nasar and Placida Nacido. He is engaged to be married to Flor Miguel, but as his father before him, has engaged in trysts with his housekeeper's daughter. Likewise he has frequented a whorehouse and has an intimate relationship with its matron.
Meanwhile Bayardo San Ramon and Angela Vicario are to be married. Angela is not a virgin and San Ramon kicks her out of their marriage chamber. She is dishonored by her mother, and her twin brothers Pablo and Pedro are determined to kill the man responsible for their sister's reckless behavior. All signs point to Santiago Nasar.
The narrator tells this tale when all principal players have reached middle age. A boyhood friend of Nasar and a cousin of the Vicarios, he is determined to find out if Nasar was really guilty. Angela has paid the price, living like an old maid, yet still professing her love to Bayardo San Ramon after all these years. Yet despite the narrator's attempts to piece all the evidence together, Angela will not reveal the key clue, leaving the reader hanging throughout this short tale.
Even in this short tale, it is obvious to me that Garcia Marquez knows how to weave a story together. I am fan of Isabel Allende and people tell me that her writing reminds them of Garcia Marquez. As this is my first taste of his writing, I can sense the similarities- many characters in a Latin American village, the opening sentences containing flashbacks, and a high level of magical realism. I rate this novella 4 stars for its short length as I look forward to reading Garcia Marquez' opus which earned him international renown.
"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."
A grand wedding. A gruesome murder. And a multitude of lives changed forever. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella which recounts a fictionalized account inspired by an actual incident of honor-killing in Colombia back in 1951, now immortalized in this 1981 novella.
The story is about the series of events leading up to a murder, and its aftermath. It is written in pseudo-journalistic style in the form of interviewed accounts staged 20 years after the tragedy. The more fantastic aspects of the novel are that the victim is made to be a Jesus-like figure, so much so that his death is almost likened to crucifixion. One can also relate to the theatrics of the death of Julius Caesar while reading this story.
The death of Julius Caesar
Fun fact: The novel led to a after a man claimed unlawful use of his life story for the novel.
Ya iba siendo hora de que me iniciara con Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, y mejor no ha podido ser ese comienzo. A trav茅s de las entrevistas que nuestro narrador realiza a los distintos vecinos de un peque帽o pueblo, iremos reconstruyendo los hechos que terminaron con la muerte de Santiago Nasar a manos de los g茅melos Pedro y Pablo Vicario.
Lo primero que sorprende de la novela es que empiece por el final. Nada m谩s comenzar sabemos cual es el desenlace y poco a poco el autor nos ir谩 construyendo la historia sin un orden cronol贸gico establecido, pero donde las piezas ir谩n encajado perfectamente. Es incre铆ble que una novela consiga mantenerte en vilo todo el tiempo, a煤n sabiendo de entrada todo lo sucedido. Eso solo lo consiguen los grandes.
La atm贸sfera que crean las narraciones de los hechos por parte de los diferentes personajes es espectacular. Ese aura intrigante donde todo el pueblo sab铆a lo que iba a pasar salvo la propia v铆ctima o su madre. Como muchos no le dan importancia, como otros eluden avisarlo a sabiendas de lo que ocurrir铆a o como los pocos que lo quieren salvar no consiguen avisarlo, pese a que lo intenten. Se dir铆a que su destino estaba fijado y que por m谩s que el inminente asesinato estaba en boca de todos, nada pod铆a hacerse contra lo que ya estaba escrito. Me ha flipado toda esa idea.
Pocas cosas tengo que decir ya del realismo m谩gico, porque ven铆a sospechando que encajaba mucho conmigo, pero es que ya no es una sospecha. Me flipa completamente. Sobre todo hay una caracter铆stica de este g茅nero que me encanta y he encontrado anteriormente en otros libros latinoamericanos: la naturalidad con la que los hechos se narran, independientemente de lo horrible que sean. En el caso de "Cr贸nica de una muerte anunciada", la escena de la muerte de Salvador es tan realista, cruda y violenta que impacta much铆simo. Pero impacta a煤n m谩s la naturalidad y la aparente frialdad con la que se va describiendo. 隆Incre铆ble!
Hablar sobre la pluma de Garc铆a M谩rquez ser铆a algo muy temerario por mi parte, as铆 que solo dir茅 que me ha encantando su manera de contar las cosas. Cada palabra se me antojaba justa y precisa, no le falta ni le sobra nada. Adem谩s, cuando se habla de un autor de renombre, siempre me asalta el miedo de que resulte cargante o pesado. Nada m谩s lejos de la realidad. Su prosa se lee de un tir贸n, pese a la profundidad que tiene. Un enorme ejemplo de que la pedanter铆a no hace al escritor bueno. Y este se帽or lo es y mucho.
En fin, que estoy deseando seguir leyendo la obra de Garc铆a M谩rquez, porque tiene pinta de convertirse en uno de mis imprescindibles. Espero que en este 2021 caigan m铆nimos dos m谩s, aunque es una pena que la obra de Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez no sea especialmente extensa, o eso creo. En definitiva, que recomiendo a todas esas personas que le tengan cierto respeto a el autor, que se lo pierdan, porque no cuesta leerlo. Yo lo hice y ha merecido la pena.
Stabbing a man to death is not as easy as it sounds; after all, it took 23 swipes at poor old Julius Caesar, but only one of them was actually deemed fatal. It takes a hell of an effort. Not like that seen in those pathetic slasher movies, where a big breasted peroxide blonde is chased around a mansion by a nutcase bearing a huge blade that only dishes out flesh wounds.
Chronicling the murder of one Santiago Nasar in a small unnamed South American village, M谩rquez dazzles in a fictional world that is as pungently sharp as the knives used to kill, it's a murder everyone in town knew was coming, yet no one wanted. ''Never was a death more foretold.'' says the the novels narrator, recounting the events of that fateful day, in fact, it's many years later where the story is told from, using the recollections of various townsfolk, a picture is slowly built up of just "who" and "why" this horrendous act took place. The purpose is less to do with trying solve any mystery, as the deed was committed in broad daylight, by two brothers, who understood their sister had been dishonored by Nasar, it's more based on the determination to try and understand why no one was able to prevent the death from happening. Spare in tone and somewhat bizarre it's a clever piece of writing that explores the nature of complicity and fate, and of how an act of savage intent can effect so many lives over time.
M谩rquez utilizes mysticism and spirituality in his writing that represents culture, and symbolizes meaning within the context of the work. The death of Santiago may not have been avoided, partially due to the strange inabilities of his characters to connect with their spiritual powers. Both Santiago鈥檚 mother and his god-mother are unable to 鈥榯ruly feel his demise鈥�. Mostly random thoughts and actions of several different people contribute to altering the course of that murderous day, with the fate of Santiago totally left in the hands of others. Although a quick read, what I admired the most was the fact it's a deeper story than you think, it's not just the death of one, but the suffering of many, those who are burdened with failed responsibilities, the knives may have been in the hands of the killers, but seemingly the whole village also has a tight grip around them, this makes the story all the more powerful and ultimately sad in the end, leaving an open wound on the people, unlikely ever to heal.
Entre todos lo mataron y solo se muri贸. Este es un libro en el que no importa el "c贸mo", sino el "por qu茅". Emparentada con "El t煤nel" de Ernesto S谩bato, ambos autores generan el spoiler en las primeras l铆neas, develando el asesinato. Sinceramente, no pude dejar de leerlo, de un tir贸n, hasta el final. Y es precisamente ese final, de la manera que Gabo lo narra, lo que shockea al lector. Parece que uno est谩 sintiendo las pu帽aladas, viendo la sangre, sintiendo el desgarro... Edgar Allan Poe dijo una vez que "todas las obras de arte deber铆an empezar por el final". Esta novela es una digna prueba de ello.
I read this short masterpiece ages ago, but it only recently resurfaced in my mind, like a forgotten dream. It's a tense drama of murder foretold, written in the magical realism style for which Columbian novelist, Marquez, was lionised. I really need to read it again to reacquaint myself with its succulent excellence. (Ditto, Don Quixote, and so many other exquisitely-written novels that are now consigned to the backroom of my cluttered mind).
5/5 A falta de una rese帽a m谩s amplia, comentar茅 que, hasta el cuarto cap铆tulo, estaba convencido de otorgarle 4 estrellas; sobre todo por la din谩mica de la narraci贸n y las caracter铆sticas del pueblo en que se localiza. Pero el quinto y 煤ltimo cap铆tulo, me ha conquistado definitivamente, con esa apelaci贸n magistral al destino y a la implacable fatalidad. Por algo Garcia M谩rquez era un maestro y esta una de sus obras m谩s emblem谩ticas, con su peculiar estructura donde desde el principio el lector asiste a la cr贸nica de lo que va a ocurrir.
There鈥檚 a kind of cheap thrill to dishing out one star to a Nobel prize winner and a guy I previously gave 5 stars to for the brilliant One Hundred Years of Solitude, but it has to be done because on a sentence by sentence level this this thin story in a thin book is as dull as ditchwater which has lost the will to live, all about some honor killing but of a guy not a woman, the alleged deflowerer of a returned bride. Yeah, we are in a society where if the bride isn鈥檛 a virgin she鈥檚 returned 鈥� 鈥渢his one鈥檚 secondhand, I ordered new, I want my money back鈥�, so the brothers of the unfortunately-all-too-consummated sister go and shoot the alleged deflowerer. I didn鈥檛 care who shot who or how many chickens were cooked or how or what the dress looked like or why or how many complicated street festivals there were for who knew what obscure saints and who saw who do what at 3.32 on the fateful afternoon or which sisters of which family were able to levitate and how many times the brothers told everybody and his uncle and his uncle鈥檚 uncle that they were going to shoot Santiago Nasar and when and how and where and which and why nobody called the cops and all this and that. But that's just me, I hope you like it.
muhte艧emdi, muhte艧em! i艧lenece臒i ba艧tan beri bilinen cinayeti nas谋l anlatabilirsin diye d眉艧眉nm眉艧t眉m kitaba ba艧larken. san谋r谋m bundan g眉zel anlat谋lamazd谋. ba艧谋 ve sonu bir tutup s眉rekli o noktadan 莽谋k谋p ufak halkalar 莽izerek o noktaya d枚nmesiyle 莽i莽ek gibi bir kurgu yapt谋 adeta :) bay谋ld谋m. g枚rd眉臒眉m herkese 枚vece臒im, insanlar谋 b谋kt谋raca臒谋m kitaplardan biri oldu k谋rm谋z谋 pazartesi.
En cierta manera me ha recordado a "A sangre fr铆a", porque hace una cr贸nica de unos hechos que, en esencia, ocurrieron. Pero mientras "A sangre fr铆a" es no ficci贸n, esta novela es ficci贸n. Y lo curioso es que Garc铆a M谩rquez imita tan bien la forma de cr贸nica, que a veces parece ser m谩s "no ficci贸n" que la novela de Capote.
Hay personas a quienes les pareci贸 aburrido, a m铆 no. Hay quienes no soportan el estilo de Garc铆a M谩rquez, no es mi caso. A m铆 me ha parecido una novela muy s贸lida, que hace una radiograf铆a de una poblaci贸n peque帽a (que en cierta manera podr铆a representar la sociedad colombiana) donde las costumbres, la religi贸n y el machismo crean un c贸ctel muy peligroso. Al final, Garc铆a M谩rquez parece querer decir que ese crimen ocurri贸 porque el mundo est谩 lleno de gente que "Pasa de follones" (conocidos como "padefos"), de personas que agachan la cabeza, se encogen de hombros y pasan la responsabilidad a cualquiera en vez de asumirla ellos mismos. Al final, ocurre porque nadie lo impide. Todos son, de alguna manera, responsables. Tal vez no culpables, pero s铆 responsables.
Siempre he pensado que el fuerte de Garc铆a M谩rquez no es la trama, sino la construcci贸n del universo, as铆 que sus relatos m谩s cortos siempre me gustan m谩s. No es la novela suya que m谩s me gusta, pero me ha gustado.
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When I was reading this book, I found out some friends had read this book at his/her school age. How lucky you are, my friends. This is a good novel.
There are thousands correct ways to write a story. This novel used one of the rarely used ways. It was using non-linear timeline story, move back-and-forth between multi POV from a same morning when the incident occurred. It was not the first story using it ("In The Groove" of came to my mind), but M谩rquez added more factors into the story: unavoidable fate (no matter how good your intentions or how hard your efforts), or how some persons were weak-willed too afraid to intervene. In other words, this fiction injected some realistic factors in the novel, combined with skillful writing.
I want to point the HAPPY ending for this novel. How genius M谩rquez put the real end of the story in the middle of the story . It was so beautiful .
3,5馃専 La novela cuenta la historia del asesinato de Santiago Nasar a manos de los gemelos Pedro y Pablo Vicario. "La cr贸nica de una muerte anunciada" de la v铆ctima comienza cuando 脕ngela Vicario, hermana menor de los gemelos, es devuelta por su esposo despu茅s de la noche de bodas porque no es virgen. Al ser interrogada por el culpable de su deshonra, la mujer se帽ala a Santiago Nasar y su familia decide cobrar venganza para restablecer el honor perdido.
Aunque fue una lectura r谩pida, lo que m谩s me gust贸 fue el hecho de que es una historia m谩s profunda de lo que piensas, no es solo la muerte de una persona, sino el sufrimiento de muchos, aquellos que cargan con responsabilidades fallidas. Los cuchillos pueden haber estado en las manos de los asesinos, pero aparentemente todo el pueblo tambi茅n tiene una parte de culpa. Esto hace que la historia sea todav铆a m谩s poderosa, dej谩ndonos en 煤ltima instancia con un triste final que deja una herida abierta y sangrante casi todos los habitantes del pueblo que es poco probable que cure.
Para m铆 no es el mejor libro de Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, pero sin duda es totalmente recomendable y su lectura nos har谩 pasar un buen rato, adem谩s es cortito y f谩cil de leer.