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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

(1982)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1983 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee)

Setting out to reconstruct a murder that took place 27 years earlier, this chronicle moves backwards and forwards in time, through the contradictions of memory and moments lost in time. Its irony gives the book the nuances of a political fable.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"A tour de force of moral and emotional complexity." - Angela Carter


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