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Start giftingChronicle of a Death Foretold
A Novel
Narrator
Bernardo de Paula
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Translator
Gregory Rabassa
Length
2 hours 53 minutes
Language
English
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister.
Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was an author, journalist, and novelist who is considered one of the most influential writers of the twenty-first century, particularly in the Spanish language. He was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature Among his many books are The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Bernardo de Paula has played in voice-over roles in cartoons, television, movies, video games, and more.
Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His translations include works by Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Franco. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.
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“Brilliant…A small masterpiece…we can almost see, smell, and hear Garcia Marquez’s Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants.”
“As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate…an exquisite performance.”
“Exquisitely harrowing…very strange and brilliantly conceived…a sort of metaphysical murder mystery.”
"A tour de force…Not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche…not merely a family but an entire culture.”
“Bernardo de Paula captures the voice of the fictional unnamed narrator…De Paula’s transitions between Spanish and English are fluid, and he never breaks the melodic cadence of the prose. His vocal characterizations are believable…Throughout his narration, de Paula acts as a storyteller, re-creating the scenes of the murder clearly and engagingly.”
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