In Evil Hour

First UK edition. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Publisher’s original blue cloth with gilt to spine. Red top-stain. In dust jacket. About fine. *** First full-length novel by the Colombian 1982 Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marque. It was originally published in Spanish in 1962, but not translated into English until 1979. (The UK edition is preceded by the US edition by a year.) The novel is often seen as a precursor to One Hundred Years of Solitude, with some of the same characters and situations appearing in this earlier novel.