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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Gabriel García Márquez, 1981

Short read, about 122 pages

A whole town knew a man would be killed. Years later, someone asks why nobody stopped it.

Talk about it

  1. If everyone knew, why did nobody stop it?
  2. How does telling the story years later change what you notice in it?
  3. Which townspeople did you hold most responsible, and why?

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