Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel Garcia Marquez. First American edition (stated). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Near Fine condition. Translated from Spanish by Gregoria Robassa. No writing or markings in the book, 120 pp. "Nobel Prize winner (1982) Gabriel García Márquez's novel about the codes that men impose on women, and women on themselves; the curious notions of honor that can dominate an isolated community; the irresistible impulse toward violence; and the psychology of mass complicity (from the). Following the original publication in 1981 in Colombia." The basis for a 1987 movie that starred Rupert Everett.