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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart.
Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart.
Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.
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“I think this should have stayed in the vault. Not because its bad, but because if you've read Marquez then you know this is unfinished. The bones are there for a very compelling story, where we want to spend more time with the MC and get to the heart of why she has decided to emotionlessly commit adultery. I would have appreciated her affairs if she had done them with conviction. But this will I? won't I? waffling when she already knows what she's about was unattractive.”Dominika Sakwa
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“It feels a little unfair to review or judge this book, as the author never intended for the world to see it. The unfinished nature of it is clear- it feels like you are reading vignettes or snapshots from a greater work and missing some of the context in between. I’m glad I read it- there is certainly value to reading anything written by Marquez, one of the greatest writers of this century- especially since it is the only “novel” he ever wrote with a female protagonist. The premise is intriguing and I was never disengaged with the book- I just wanted it to have more to say.”About Gabriel García Márquez
GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died in 2014.
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