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Book Review: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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You know its a genius such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez , when the title itself reveals contrasts. 'Chronicle' juxtaposed with ' Foretold' tells us that the book opens with a violence of opposites. This proves true when in a book loaded with multiplicity of genres - fiction, epistolary, journalistic reconstruction or murder mystery actually foretells the murder of the protagonist, Santiago Nasar in the very beginning. In fact, even the murderers, the Vicario brothers, are introduced and made clear ...

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