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Ibrahim Buys a Warehouse in Town
52 Years Before the Murder
Ibrahim Nasar buys a warehouse.
Ibrahim Nasar is married, and converts the warehouse into a home.
"The house was a former warehouse... Ibrahim Nasar bought it at a cheap price in order to set up an important store that he never did establish". (pg 10) -
" I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school" (Pg 43).
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Santiago's lifespan is January 28, 1930. He died on a Monday, February 19, 1951 "The Monday of his death" (pg 7)
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Pages 6-9
"She'd neem seduced by Ibrahim Nasar in the fullness of her adolescence. She'd made love to him in secret for several years in the stables of the ranch" (pg 9). -
Feb 2, 1950
Santiago Nasar's Father Dies
Santiago Nasar's father, Ibrahim Nasar, dies
Santiago is forced to abandon his studies and take charge of the ranch
The family continues to mourn his death up to Santiago's murder
"he seemed happy with his father until the latter died suddenly, three years before". (pg 7) -
chapter 3, "They spent three years awaiting trial because they couldn't afford bail" (pg 49).
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"Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Román had seen each other for the first time on the national holiday in October during a charity bazaar" (pg 29).
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"Santiago Nasar calculated, and told Bayardo San Román, that up to then the wedding was costing some nine thousand pesos" (pg 42).
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"On the table hee laid ten bundles of thousand- peso notes with the printed bands of the State Bank still on them" (pg 37).
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"The twins declared at the end of the trial that they would have done it again a thousand times over for the same reason" (Pg 48).
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"Colonel Aponte understood then that they couldn't wait any longer and he ordered Father Amador to perform the autopsy" (pg 74)
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-Envelope shoved under door telling Santiago someone was waiting to kill him.
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"His mother, told me twenty-seven years later, recalling the details of that distressing Monday"
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" But he found the Magnum in the drawer of the night table. 'I'd never shot a gun,' Cristo Bedoya told me, 'but I decided to take the revolver and bring it to Santiago Nasar'" (pg 106).
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He Knew it was his last moment; the twins were surprised at how big Santiago was, and Santiago knew he only had his hands and had knives, and they were two, and he was alone. "Santiago Nasar turned frontward again and leaned his back against his mother's; door, without the slightest resistance" (pg 118).
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"Toward the end of the week, unable to get a moment's rest, she wrote him the first letter" (pg 92-93).
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" She wrote a weekly letter for over half a lifetime" (pg 93).
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"At the end of two months, tired of waiting, she sent him another letter in the same oblique style as the previous one" (pg 93).
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he comes back in august, 17 years later
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The Narrator visits Angela in her small town, where she has been industriously working at her embroidery and trying to forget. She gives a frank interview regarding the case.
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"It was a massacre, performed at the public school with the help of the druggist, who took notes, and a first-year medical student who was here on vacation" (pg 75).
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"I was awake for eleven months" (Pg 80).
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"He was fat and beginning to lose his hair, and he already needed glasses to see things close by, she told me. But it was him, damn it, it was him!" (pg 95)