Chronicle of a Death Foretold
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. 1st US Edition. Octavo, publisher’s brown cloth, spine stamped in silver, upper board blindstamped, original illustrated dust jacket.
"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard." First US edition of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s short novel (originally published in Colombia in 1981). Presented as a semi-reportorial narrative assembled from testimony, official records, and secondhand recollections, the novel reconstructs the chain of events that culminated in the murder of an affluent young man. The story was inspired by a real-life crime that took place in 1951 in Sucre, Colombia, in which Cayetano Gentile was killed by two brothers seeking to avenge their sister’s alleged dishonor. Translated from the original Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Dust jacket designed by Sara Eisenman with an illustration by Alain Gauthier; author photo to lower panel by Eva Rubinstein. Light shelfwear and sunning to board edge, light embrowning to endpapers from binder's glue; price-clipped dust jacket with light sunning to spine panel and light edgewear. Very good. Item #12992
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