"Exquisitely harrowing ... very strange and brilliantly conceived ... a sort of metaphysical murder mystery." –
The New York Times Book Review "This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away." –
The New York Review of Books "Brilliant ... A small masterpiece ... we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez's Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants." –
San Francisco Chronicle "As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate ... an exquisite performance." –
The Christian Science Monitor "A tour de force ... In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche ... not merely a family but an entire culture." –
The Washington Post Book World
