abeanbg 's review for:

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez

5.0

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This grows a lot in hindsight. The brevity surprised me initially, but it lends the novella an almost breathless quality that makes the titular foretold death incredibly shocking and uncomfortable. Which is quite the feat because YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN THE WHOLE TIME. Not on a level with One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera, but that's not a fair barometer anyway.