In Evil Hour
By (Author) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
11th April 2014
6th March 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
863.64
Paperback
192
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 13mm
139g
Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time 'Cesar Montero was dreaming about elephants. He'd seen them at the movies on Sunday...' Moments later, Cesar is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed. But Cesar is not the only man riled the rumours spread in his hometown - someone creeps through the streets sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. Paranoia seeps through the town - can the perpetrator be uncovered before leaving the inhabitants' sanity in tatters In Evil Hour is re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
A masterly book * Guardian *
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, 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.