Welcome back to my blog and today I will be review the book Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. This book was originally written in Spanish and was translated to English by Gregory Rabassa. This book was assigned to me by school and I had heard so many good things about Garcia Marquez' books that I thought I was really going to enjoy reading this one. However, that was not the case. This book is like a retelling of the death of Santiago Nasar 27 years after it happened. It's told in the third point of view by a member of the town that was in town when Santiago Nasar was killed. It goes back and forwards between the past, the present and everything that happened in between. It does not go in chronological order and according to my teacher that's what gives it depth. I honestly didn't like it because it was a mess between what happened back then and what happened after and in between. Nonetheless, it's the telling of Santiago Nasar's death and everything that led up to it and the aftermath. Santiago Nasar is a mixed Arab and Colombian man living in 1950s Colombia. He is a rich, macho man who only sees women as objects and treats them like such. He is more feared than respected but that does not stop hos murder. Everyone in the town knows that people are planning to kill him and no one does anything to save him because he was hated because he was an Arab, rich, and abusive. The plot revolves around all the events that led up to his death, how foretold it was, and how it affected everyone in town. I personally didn't like this book because it wasn't in chronological order at all and that made it really hard to understand what was going on. However, it did have me on the edge of my seat at times thinking something mind-blowing was going to happen but it disappointed me. Because of this, I will give this book a 3/10 and wouldn't really recommend reading it only if you're into the whole chronological mess.
"There had never been a death more foretold."
"The girls were brought up to be married...Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer."
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