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Teacher’s Guide
Oct 07, 2003 | ISBN 9781400034710 Buy
Oct 15, 2014 | ISBN 9781101911105 Buy
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Oct 07, 2003 | ISBN 9781400034710
Oct 15, 2014 | ISBN 9781101911105
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 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, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion.
Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez
“Exquisitely harrowing … very strange and brilliantly conceived … a sort of metaphysical murder mystery.” —The New York Times Book Review “This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away.” —The New York Review of Books “Brilliant … A small masterpiece … we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez’s Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate … an exquisite performance.” —The Christian Science Monitor “A tour de force … In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche … not merely a family but an entire culture.” —The Washington Post Book World
Nobel Prize WINNER 1982
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