In just 122 pages Marquez brings to life a small Colombian community in which everyone is complicit to a murder which is about to happen including the victim. They all know but no one does anything, all of them waiting for someone else to do something. 27 years later a man returns to try and piece together what happened and why. Read it once, straight through, then read it again. Was it really a honour killing? Are you sure?
(Jenny Baker - bwl 94 Autumn 2019 ) |
