’Mesmerizing. An unusual and original work: a simple narrative so charged with irony that it has the authority of a political fable’

--The Times Literary Supplement

’Exquisitely harrowing. Very strange and brilliantly conceived ... a sort of metaphysical murder mystery"

--The New York Times

Santiago Nasar is brutally murdered in a small town by two brother’s.All the townspeople knew it was going to happen -including the victim. But nobody did anything to prevent the killing." Twenty-seven years later, a man arrives intown to try to piece together the truth from the contradictory testimoniesof the townsfolk.To at last understand what happeed to Santiago, and why...