In Evil Hour

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia, 1927-2014) was een van de grootste schrijvers van deze tijd. In 1967 verscheen zijn eerste roman, ‘Het kwade uur’, in vertaling bij Meulenhoff. Een jaar later verscheen ‘Honderd jaar eenzaamheid’, dat in 1972 in Nederlandse vertaling uitkwam en wereldwijd zou uitgroeien tot zijn bekendste werk. In de decennia daarna verscheen al zijn werk in vertaling bij Meulenhoff. In 1982 ontving hij de Nobelprijs voor de literatuur. Van zijn boeken werden wereldwijd miljoenen exemplaren verkocht García Márquez overleed in 2014 op 87-jarige leeftijd in zijn woonplaats Mexico-Stad.

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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?



In Evil Hour is the thrilling story of a Colombian society menaced by rumour and paranoia by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

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 that the mayor, the doctor or the priest can do about it?

'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

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Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
06 maart 2014
Aantal pagina's
192
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Tweede Auteur
Marquez Gabriel Ga
Co Auteur
Marquez Gabriel Ga
Hoofduitgeverij
Penguin Books Ltd

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Gregory Rabassa

Character

Personage
Marvel

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Product breedte
150 mm
Product hoogte
22 mm
Product lengte
210 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
128 mm
Verpakking hoogte
15 mm
Verpakking lengte
196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
144 g

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EAN
9780241968710

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Land
Colombia
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  • Debut of a Noble-prize winner

    This is Marquez’s 1962 debut. It has all the ingredients of his later masterworks: freak weather adding fuel to collective fears about impending doom and violence. Corrupt local law enforcement, magical thinking and ugly dreams. It is situated in Colombia in the 1950s during 17 days of a hot, sleep-depriving rainy season in a village surrounded by mountains, supplied by ship twice weekly. The rich live in brick houses, the poor in huts, some so light they can be moved manually to higher ground.
    Marquez endows the village with a magical past: a colonel Aureliano Buendía is said to have spent one night on the veranda of what later became a hotel, around which the village congealed. [True fans know that the colonel and family will re-appear in later novels.]
    Then written accusations appear on villagers’ doors. Early in the book, this leads to a swift murder. Poor, archconservative priest Angel (61) has been the village's moral guide for 19 years: only one unwed couple still lives in disgrace, compared to nine (9) when he arrived. But does he really matter?

    The village mayor is an army lieutenant who enforces the state of emergency on behalf of the ruling junta 3 three released murderers as reserve policemen. He is the real mover and shaker and is becoming increasingly corrupt. He has long kept his trio of killers under wraps, locked up their uniforms and guns. They lived and sat in their underpants in the police station, while 3 real policemen maintained law and order. Until the day when the mayor feels threatened…
    Wonderful story about suffering or resisting oppression and violence with a colorful cast of characters: the dentist, the doctor, the barber, the penniless, incorruptible estate manager Carmichael with his 11 children in different colors. Pure magic.

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