Used book: *Chronicle of a Death Foretold* [99% new]

★Marquez believed it to be his most accomplished work.
★"It's a cruel crime story, a novel of great tension, for which I wrote for thirty years." – Gabriel García Márquez
★"It encompasses all the elements of my previous works, and I believe I achieved 100% of what I wanted to write, with absolute precision." – Gabriel García Márquez
"The murderers desperately sought someone to stop them, yet everyone ignored them, stood by and watched."
In 1951, one of Gabriel García Márquez's friends was brutally murdered in front of the whole town. "I was so eager to tell this story, perhaps it was what ultimately defined my career as a writer."
In 1981, after 30 years of investigation and contemplation, Márquez finally uncovered the key to this tragedy.

About the Author
Author: (Colombia) Gabriel García Márquez Translator: Wei Ran
Gabriel García Márquez (Gabriel García Márquez) was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a coastal town in Magdalena, Colombia. He lived with his grandparents during his childhood. In 1936, he moved with his parents to Sucre. In 1947, he was admitted to the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. In 1948, he dropped out due to civil war and entered journalism. He began publishing literary works in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he moved to Mexico. In 1967, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was published. In 1981, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" was published. In 1982, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature.