Product Description

When newly-wed Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman are left to their wedding night, Bayardo discovers that his new wife is no virgin. Disgusted, he returns Angela to her family home that very night, where her humiliated mother beats her savagely and her two brothers demand to know her violator, whom she names as Santiago Nasar. As he wakes to thoughts of the previous night’s revelry, Santiago is unaware of the slurs that have been cast against him. But with Angela’s brothers set on avenging their family honour, soon the whole town knows who they plan to kill, where, when and why.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11160 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
'My favourite book by one of the world's greatest authors. You're in the hands of a master' Mariella Frostrup'A work of high explosiveness -- the proper stuff of Nobel prizes. An exceptional novel.' The Times'A masterpiece' Evening Standard'Brilliant writer, brilliant book' - Dan Rhodes, The, Guardian

About the Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.