The English language edition of En agosto nos vemos—the highly anticipated posthumous novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez—Until August, translated by Anne McLean, will be published on March 12, 2024. The book is now available for pre-ordering. [The original novel, En agosto nos vemos, will be published on the 97th anniversary of the author’s birth, on March 6, 2024.]
DESCRIPTION: One of the Time Magazine’s “25 Most Anticipated Books of 2024”
The extraordinary, rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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 created 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.
Viking / Knopf / Penguin, March 12, 2024
128 pages
ISBN 978-0241686355 (Viking), 978-0593801994 (Knopf), 978-0241703779 (Penguin)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746738/until-august-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459844/until-august-by-marquez-gabriel-garcia/9780241686355
Of related interest: “Why Gabriel García Márquez’s lost novel is being published against his wishes”
Nawaid Anjum, The Federal: https://thefederal.com/category/features/why-gabriel-garca-mrquezs-lost-novel-is-being-published-against-his-wishes-99272
Also see https://repeatingislands.com/2023/10/23/forthcoming-book-en-agosto-nos-vemos/, https://repeatingislands.com/2023/12/17/the-25-most-anticipated-books-of-2024/, and https://repeatingislands.com/2023/10/24/gabriel-garcia-marquezs-last-novel-stands-in-tribute-to-his-defiance-of-dementia/.
The English language edition of En agosto nos vemos—the highly anticipated posthumous novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez—Until August, translated by Anne McLean, will be published on March 12, 2024. The book is now available for pre-ordering. [The original novel, En agosto nos vemos, will be published on the 97th anniversary of the author’s
