In Evil Hour (International Writers S.) - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140157506 ISBN 13: 9780140157505

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday...’

Only moments later, César is led away by police as they clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.

But César is not the only man to be riled by the rumours being spread in his Colombian hometown – under the cover of darkness, someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Each night the respectable townsfolk retire to their beds fearful that they will be the subject of the following morning’s lampoons.

As paranoia seeps through the town and the delicate veil of tranquility begins to slip, can the perpetrator be uncovered before accusation and violence leave the inhabitants’ sanity in tatters?

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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: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140157506
• ISBN 13: 9780140157505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192