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Chronicle of a death foretold

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An edition of Crónica de una muerte anunciada (1980)

Chronicle of a death foretold

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  • 73 Have read

'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on' When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
122

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Subjects

ritual Death Spanish language books Spanish fiction Colombian fiction Fiction Death in fiction Translations into Russian Honor Murder Revenge social conditions twins weddings Venganza Asesinato Ficción Muerte Spanish literature Translations into English French fiction Roman français Magic realism (Literature) Oberschicht Familienehre Romance literature Fiction (fictional works by one author) Colombia, fiction Belletristische Darstellung Spanish language Study and teaching Examinations and questions Long Now Manual for Civilization

People

Santiago Nasar Placida Linero Victoria Guzman Divina Flor Angela Vicario Pablo Vicario Bayardo San Roman Purisima Del Carmen Poncio Vicario Maria Alejandrina Cervantes Prudencia Cotes Ibrahim Nasar Clothilde Armenta Don Rogelio De La Flor Margot Cristo Bedoya Luis Enrique Father Amador Lazaro Aponte Faustino Santos Petronio San Roman Alberta Simonds Yamil Shaium Flora Miguel Nahir Miguel Xius Mercedes Barcha

Places

Colombia

Times

1970 20th century

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1981, Editorial La Oveja Negra
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Edition Notes

This translation originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.

Published in
London
Translation Of
Crónica de una muerte anunciada
Translated From
Spanish

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
863.64
Library of Congress
PQ8180.17.A73 C68 2008, PQ8180.17.A73

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Pagination
122 pages
Number of pages
122

Edition Identifiers

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OL30103540M
ISBN 10
0141032464
ISBN 13
9780141032467
OCLC/WorldCat
781180630

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OL274574W

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