Gabriel García Márquez
The day he was to be killed, Santiago Nassar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the steamer to bring the bishop. Thus begins the Chronicle of a Foretold Death, the most "realistic" of all Marquez's novels, as it is based on a true story that happened in Colombia. A few hours after his marriage to Angela Vicario, Bagiardo San Roman sends the bride back to hers because he found her dishonored. After they make her confess the name of her lover, her brothers move to kill him to launder the honor of their family. But why, while everyone knows what the two brothers are going to do, no one is stopping them? Twenty-seven years later, a man returns to the scene of the murder, trying to unravel the mystery. And, as the tangle of history unfolds, the time comes when not the two murderers but an entire society should be judged…
