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Chronicle of a death foretold: Audiobook

The Chronicle of a death foretold audiobook runs an estimated 4 hours (about 2.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

4est. listening hrs
4.1★50 ratings
Romancegenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 4 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Chronicle of a death foretold at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day8 days
1 hour / day4 days
2 hours / day2 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×3 days

What our data says

  • At 4 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 99% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 52% shorter than the average romance audiobook (8.3 hrs across 3596 titles in our dataset).

Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for romance listeners who want a murder to untangle: a weekend-size listen at 4 hours (estimated).

About the book

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—is put on trial.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Chronicle of a death foretold audiobook?

Chronicle of a death foretold runs about 4 hours, our estimate from its 134 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 2.7 hours.

Is the Chronicle of a death foretold audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

When was Chronicle of a death foretold first published?

Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel García Márquez, Francis Salvery, Arthur Daniel was first published in 1980.