In Evil Hour - Hardcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060114142 ISBN 13: 9780060114145

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1979

Synopsis

The acclaimed Colombian writer's earlier novel about the slanders, defamations, infidelities, and torrential rains that afflict a small town and the sacrifice of a boy that brings torment and chaos to an end

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Review:

A masterly book (Guardian)

In Evil Hour was the book which was to inspire my own career as a novelist. I owe my writing voice to that one book! (Jim Crace)

Belongs to the very best of Márquez's work... should on no account be missed (Financial Times)

A splendid achievement (The Times)

About the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0060114142
• ISBN 13: 9780060114145
• Binding: Hardcover