Gabriel García Márquez

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl …

In Evil Hour is a novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1962. Written while García Márquez lived in Paris, the story was originally entitled Este pueblo de mierda. Rewritten, it won a literary prize in Colombia. Some of the same characters and situations found in La mala hora later …

Patriarkan syksy on Nobel-palkitun kolumbialaisen kirjailijan Gabriel García Márquezin vuonna 1975 ilmestynyt romaani. Se julkaistiin suomeksi 1986 Pentti Saaritsan suomentamana.

Patriarkan syksy on Nobel-palkitun kolumbialaisen kirjailijan Gabriel García Márquezin vuonna 1975 ilmestynyt romaani. Se julkaistiin suomeksi 1986 Pentti Saaritsan suomentamana.

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a …