The courts ruled against Miguel Reyes Palencia, who sued the author for basing this novel on his life story.
One character in this novel teaches a telegrapher a way to reuse a worn-out battery, shortly before he first meets his future fiancee when she and her mother walk by his house as he lies half-asleep in a rocking-chair. The courts ruled against Miguel Reyes Palencia, who sued the author for basing this novel on his life story. For seventeen years, a woman in this novel writes daily letters to her lover before he returns to her. The milk shop owner Clothilde Armenta yells at the protagonist to run moments before the pivotal action of this novel, which takes place just outside the protagonist's front door as he returns from the house of his fiancee Flora Miguel. Vengeance is exacted on the main character of this novel for despoiling the bride of Bayardo San Roman. For 10 points, name this Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel in which Angela Vicario's brothers kill Santiago Nasar.
One character in this novel teaches a telegrapher a way to reuse a worn-out battery, shortly before he first meets his future fiancee when she and her mother walk by his house as he lies half-asleep in a rocking-chair.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold [or Cronica de una muerte anunciada]