"Gronica de Una Muerte Anunciada", "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", is a great novel which was written
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and published in 1981. I liked the book a lot.
It talks about a girl whose virginity was taken by a man named Santiago Nasa. Actually, it's not so certain
that he is the one or not but in the book the girl's brothers decide to kill him after she said that he is the one.
Everybody knows that they're going to kill him but nobody can not go and say that "you should be careful
because they are going to kill you.". The book starts with the day that Santiago has been killed. This chapter
gives us information about Santiago's life. Then, the narrator talks about the girl's, Angela's, life. After that,
on the first day of her marriage, her husband understands that she's not virgin so, she sends back Angela
to her family's house. Her brothers forces him to tell them who did that to her then she says it was Santiago.
From that time until the end, nobody could change the faith even they knew that the brothers were going
to kill Santiago. So, I think it's kind of an interesting book because the subject is interesting. However,
I liked the writer's diction a lot. You could really understand how sad he is because of his friends' death.
To understand those time's culture, you should read this symbolic book. I really recommend for you to read=))
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I just tried reading another one of Marquez's books and I got a little bored. (It was good, I just wasn't in the mood, I think). So maybe I'll try this one. Thanks for the tip. :)
ReplyDeleteHope you are going to like it. I also went to the play of that . Actually, I didn't like that much but I really suggest the book. It is also being used in eleventh grade in our school for Turkish literature class!
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