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A review by anomandrewrake
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
5.0
Overall: 5/5 stars (It's a masterpiece), Rated R
Elevator Pitch: The narrator recounts a tragic murder which occurred despite several people being warned of it beforehand.
A short book (90 pages) will get a short review. This novella was riveting despite its intentional lack of suspense. The first sentence gets you quickly to a curious, "How did this happen?" and as the story progresses your reaction gradually changes to a horrified, "How did this happen?" The fact that so much is conveyed thematically in so short a volume is ludicrous; you really feel after it all that you've been given a complete picture of the community's soul, hypocrisies and all. Especially moving was the final scene between the prospective husband and wife. The capstone of it all, however, is in the very last pages when the event is finally described in its entirety. To learn after the fact (as I did) that the story is based on a real event from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's youth is astounding.
Elevator Pitch: The narrator recounts a tragic murder which occurred despite several people being warned of it beforehand.
A short book (90 pages) will get a short review. This novella was riveting despite its intentional lack of suspense. The first sentence gets you quickly to a curious, "How did this happen?" and as the story progresses your reaction gradually changes to a horrified, "How did this happen?" The fact that so much is conveyed thematically in so short a volume is ludicrous; you really feel after it all that you've been given a complete picture of the community's soul, hypocrisies and all. Especially moving was the final scene between the prospective husband and wife. The capstone of it all, however, is in the very last pages when the event is finally described in its entirety. To learn after the fact (as I did) that the story is based on a real event from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's youth is astounding.