Chronicle of a death foretold

"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