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  <title><![CDATA[Chronicle of a Death Foretold]]></title>
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  <default_description>A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees,  Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents.  Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. &lt;br&gt;Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it?  The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers&amp;#8212;is put on trial.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gabriel García Márquez]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 08 19:55:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I own about 70 copies of illegally-photocopied versions of this book so I can use it with my students in class. And unlike most books I teach, I read this one every year.<br/><br/>Why? 'Cuz it's an unbelievable text.<br/><br/>I firmly believe that Santiago Nasar is one of literature's greatest C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2846974">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Nov 09 12:32:34 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based on an actual incident, this novel dramatizes the story of a young bride whose husband returns her after their wedding night because she's not a virgin. Subsequently, her brothers set out to murder the man whom she names as the &quot;perpetrator&quot;. A former resident who has returned to reco...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37200913">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 03 11:50:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book piecemeal, but even though I would be away for it for days at a time, I had to come back -- and the last 30 pages or so made me drop everything to read them. *Chronicle* is one of those books that left me confused, but convinced of its beauty. Unlike a detective novel (a genre it is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2676701">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm fairly certain that if I tallied up all the times friends and co-workers have told me that I must read a certain author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez would hold the top spot for sheer number of recommendations. I'm a little surprised it's taken me so long to get around to reading one of his books, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34963080">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[True to its title, &quot;Chronicle&quot; re-investigates a murder that takes place 27 years earlier. What seems at first a cut and dry case, becomes an interwoven tale of abrupt accusations and tragic misunderstanding. As the reader discovers, the entire event almost never happens, numerous times, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31948131">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 14 05:43:46 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As is typical in Garcia Marquez, you know what is going to happen plot-wise (Santiago Nasar gets murdered) in the first sentence of the book.  However, what happens is not quite as important, or interesting, as what has happened to every other person in that town around this event, moving backwards ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30115919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41079979">
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    <body><![CDATA[Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written two wonderful books: Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude.  All of his other books, in my opinion are an amalgam of these two wonderful books.  If you've read those two, you're good to go.]]></body>
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    <review id="38437565">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book. Not as much as 100 years, but it was rich and quite profound.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a short and sweet novella that is a must-read for the magical realist genre.  Its opening paragraph is an attention grabber that makes the mind ponder to read more.<br/>Gabriel Garcia Marquez narrates the story from the perspective of a nat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56961797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[we read in class for english <br/>english hw<br/>Bayardo San Roman is a strange man remarked by all this way.  He appears one day in the town every one thought he was mysterious.  Although in the town “nobody knew what he’d come for”(26). He came to the town to search for a wife.  Every one de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44388379">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65944586">
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think the translation was as good as it could have been, but I could perceive some of the language even so, and I can't wait to actually read it in Spanish and understand it. This book is surreal and Marquez really triumphs with the style of magical realism in more than just the obvious ways...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65944586">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes I feel like I'm the only book-lover who hates most of the books she reads.  I don't mean to; I always go in hoping for the best.  But for whatever reason, most books aren't what I was looking for. <br/><br/>Same goes for this book.  I'd heard great things about Marquez, and was curious a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63862070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that the title of this book tells it all because once I read the title I knew exactly what the book was going to be about. What was really interesting was that you basically know what the whole story is about in the first 20 pages. This book is basically a flashback. In the beginning of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59546576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Give me prejudice and I will move the whole world</strong><br/>Gabriel Garcia Marquez, <em> Chronicle of a Death Foretold </em><br/><br/>Bayardo San Roman, son of a wealthy general, just married Angela Vicario. The problem? A, she wasn't a virgin anymore. B, she tried to trick him and failed. So C, Bayardo returne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72551787">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few days after I finished reading this book, I almost drowned.  I stumbled out of the sea and looked down, to my horror, to find my hand covered in blood and my bathing suit sticking out misshapen.  I thought something had sliced me open  in that wave just like Santiago Nasar.  (I also didn't know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5161667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44359355">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a novella - and a great introduction to Marquez's wonderful writing, without having to tackle one of his longer multi-generational masterpieces. This one is short on Marquez's signature magical realism, but high on drama and mystery. From the beginning, we know that Santiago Nasar has been m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44359355">more...</a>]]></body>
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