"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a short and spellbinding novella bordering on the hallucinatory. Telling the increasingly complex story of an honor killing in a small Colombian town thirty years previously, "Chronicle" demonstrates the power of literature to play with the senses and takes the reader on a 120-page journey into the darker parts of humanity that leaves far more questions than it does answers. The story centers around the aftermath of a the wedding of a mysterious stranger to the beautiful Angela Vicaro. After a lavish, expensive wedding, the groom returns the bride to her home, claiming that she is not a virgin. She names someone as her lover, leading to his death by her brothers. This however is only the bare outlines of the story. Told in a sort of journalistic style the narrator (a witness to the events) retells the events of that disturbing day, in each retelling finding new, often contradictory details that complicate the reader's view of the events. Reading this story was thrilling, engaging, and played with my perceptions in a way that few pieces of literature have. What gives the events of this story particular resonance is that how from the beginning of the story everything that happened seemed predetermined and most people seemed resigned to the unfolding of the events, doing little to stop it.