Publisher's Synopsis
The unnamed village in "Evil Hour" is based on another important town on Marquez's literary map - Sucre. If "One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the loneliness of fate, then "The Evil Hour" tells the loneliness of power. Marquis used anonymous black letters one after another to carve out all kinds of strange things and subtle people's hearts in this village. The village chief and the dentist, the judge and the priest, the unscrupulous landlord and the desperado... They have all appeared in Marquis's literary works, and their sophistication and hypocrisy, achievements and frustrations, anger and loneliness also let us see the endless human desires and the seemingly strong but vulnerable human nature.
