| In Evil Hour Contributor(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060919647 ISBN-13: 9780060919641 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1991 Annotation: Written just before "One Hundred Years of Solitude," this fascinating novel of a Colombian river town possessed by evil points to the author's later flowering and greatness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 81005049 |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.27" W x 8.06" (0.33 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An openly political novel posing the people of the land against the forces of oppression. . . it has the virtues of wit and compassion and reveals the foundation upon which the later novels were constructed. --Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World The thrilling story about the smears, defamations, infidelities, and torrential rains that afflict a small Colombian small town and the sacrifice of a boy that brings torment and chaos to an end, from the masterful Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. One morning slanderous posters start appearing all over the town, revealing family secrets and maligning individuals. Ghosts of the past reappear, along with old feuds and infidelities. Torrential rains then flood the town and chaos is everywhere. Neighbors suspect each other yet no one knows who is responsible. Finally, a boy is made the scapegoat and tragedy ensues. In Evil Hour contains vivid characters who reflect the humor and pathos of everyday life. This brooding novel clearly points the way to the flowering of Garcia Marquez's genius in his later One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: - Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014. |