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In Evil Hour

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In Evil Hour by Gabriel Garcia Marquez delves into the dynamics of a small town destabilised by a series of anonymous lampoons. These scandalous and rumour-filled pamphlets create tension and distrust among the townspeople, leading to social upheaval. As the community struggles to cope with the ensuing chaos, the book explores themes of power, corruption, and the thin façade of civility.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate stories set in small towns with rich, intricate characters navigating through life's complexities. It offers a blend of political intrigue and the subtle undercurrents of human nature, typical of Marquez's masterful storytelling. Fans of magical realism and reflective narratives may find it particularly engaging.

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In Evil Hour

As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster lead to a murder, everyone knows that the town is threatened by a malevolent presence, but is there anything the mayor, the doctor or the priest can do about it?

Only moments later, Cesar is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.

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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 by the rumours spreading 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.

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In Evil Hour is highly acclaimed, described as masterly by the Guardian and as inspiring a novelist's career according to Jim Crace. It's considered among the best of Márquez's work by the Financial Times and is noted as a splendid achievement by The Times.

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ISBN: 9780241968710

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 March 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 139g

Pages: 192

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Fiction Gabriel Garcia Marquez General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books

About the Author

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.

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