In Evil Hour
César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday…’
Moments later, César is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.
But César 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?
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. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
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‘César Montero was dreaming about elephants. He’d seen them at the movies on Sunday…’
Moments later, César is arrested by police who clear the crowds away from the man he has just killed.
But César 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?
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. Translated by Gregory Rabassa.
Publisher: Penguin
Paperback
2014
ISBN: 9780241968710