Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel García Márquez Latin American (Columbian) novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, who writes in Spanish language. Some of his best known works: One Hundred Years of Solitude , The Autumn of the Patriarch , Love in the Time of Cholera Title Chronicle of a Death Foretold Novella, originally written in Spanish, in 1981. English Translation Gregory Rabassa and Edith Grossman The story in a nut-shell The story surrounds the events related to the murder of Santiago Nasar. Santiago is, a young man who is alleged to have taken the virginity of Angela Vicario. On her wedding night, after discovering that she was not a virgin, Angela's husband, Bayardo San Roman, returns her to her house. Angela's twin brothers, Pedro Vicario and Pablo Vicario, ask her who took her virginity, and she tells them that Santiago Nasar did. The brothers find Santiago and kill him. Characters In order to understand the