The town was waiting for the Bishop. Everyone assumed the Vicario twins were bluffing. Santiago Nasar was too rich, too charming, and too innocent (in the narrator's memory) to actually die.
Few opening lines in literature are as chillingly effective as that of Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada). If you have just opened a PDF of the novel and finished , you are likely feeling a strange mixture of confusion, dread, and literary awe. cronica de una muerte anunciada pdf capitulo 1
"On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning." The town was waiting for the Bishop