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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 863
EAN: 9780060919641
ISBN: 0060919647
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: November 20, 1991
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: November 20, 1991
Sales Rank: 90161
Studio: Harper Perennial
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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.
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Rating:  -
After having read "Love in the Time of Cholera," this book was certainly a step down. Although there are a few interesting passages worthy of deeper thought and discussions, overall the book isn't as captivating as his more popular works.
Rating:  -
"In Evil Hour" is one of the early novels written by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Published in 1962, it was previous to his "A Hundred Years of Solitude" and "The Autumn of the Patriarch", some of his most famous novels and that consolidated his style. Considering that, one can say that this novel is really good. It is not as fine tuned as his best works, there is no Magical Realism in here -- actually, the book is quite realist -- but it is such an engaging and well conceived story that it is impossible ... Read More
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"In Evil Hour" is a swift portrait of a Colombian town that connects the awful force of oppressive regimes to the bald paranoia of a town feeding itself rumor after rumor about its own citizens. The themes are there, but might seem obtuse upon your first reading. Still, the book pretty clearly says that tyranny leads to an abandonment of sense and a mean discontent, a desire to assert yourself by shaming the powerful when you have no democratic outlet for expression. This is a novel of the quietly ... Read More
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In Evil Hour hasn't enjoyed the respect it should, as a contemporary masterpiece, at least on par with Love in the Time of Cholera.
Readers who cite a lack of plot have not fully explored this book. The reality of this novel is that all of the messages, most of the plot, and a good part of the action are implied, rather than explicitly stated. If one were available, I would recommend picking up a Cliff's Notes or Sparknotes for this book, due to the confusing structure and dense, recondite ... Read More
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This book is quite difficult for me to rate, because it didn't really follow the conventional plot structure of most other books I've read. There are so many interesting things going on but they all seem unconnected. For example, Marquez begins describing the events surrounding a group of people, and when you are just beginning to understand what is happening to them, he whisks you away to someone somewhere else and while trying to work out the link between this and the first group, he sends you to a third ... Read More
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