MEGAN MCCLUSKEY and OLIVIA B. WAXMAN (Time Magazine) draw a list of the 25 most anticipated books of 2024. On this list we find Until August, Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumous novel (translated by Anne McLean from En agosto nos vemos; to be published on March 12) and Xochitl González’s new novel, Anita de Monte Laughs Last (to be published on March 5). McCluskey and Waxman write: “From Drag Race host RuPaul’s memoir to a posthumous novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez, the 2024 books lineup offers something for every reader.”
[. . .] Anita de Monte Laughs Last, Xochitl Gonzalez (March 5)
In Xochitl Gonzalez’s new novel, a first-generation Ivy League art history major named Raquel discovers the work of Anita de Monte, a popular 1980s artist who was mysteriously found dead in New York City. As Raquel researches de Monte’s life, she starts dating another student, who is older and has many connections in the art world. Raquel begins to see parallels between her life and de Monte’s, leading her to question her relationship and her place on campus. Just like her 2022 best seller Olga Dies Dreaming, Gonzalez’s latest is a dissection of social status and privilege.
Until August, Gabriel García Márquez (March 12)
Arriving almost a decade after Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez’s death is a recently rediscovered novel, translated by Anne McLean from the original Spanish. Until August is set in the Caribbean, where a woman married for 27 years takes a new lover every time she comes to visit her mother’s grave. As she gives into her desires, a powerful narrative about love and freedom emerges. The novel promises to be full of the absurd circumstances the Colombian magical realism master is known for. [. . .]
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. XOCHITL GONZÁLEZ was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican mother and Mexican-American father, and raised in Brooklyn. She is a writer, screenwriter, and producer, whose debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming, was a New York Times Best Seller in 2022.
XOCHITL GONZÁLEZ was born in New York City to a Puerto Rican/Nuyorican mother and Mexican-American father, and raised in Brooklyn. González is a 2021 M.F.A. graduate from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a producer, cultural critic, and writer, whose debut novel Olga Dies Dreaming, was a New York Times Best Seller in 2022.
For full article, see https://time.com/6445109/most-anticipated-books-2024/282218625
Also see https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250786210/anita-de-monte-laughs-last, https://www.xochitlgonzalez.com/ and https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746738/until-august-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez/
MEGAN MCCLUSKEY and OLIVIA B. WAXMAN (Time Magazine) draw a list of the 25 most anticipated books of 2024. On this list we find Until August, Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumous novel (translated by Anne McLean from En agosto nos vemos; to be published on March 12) and Xochitl González’s new novel, Anita de Monte Laughs Last (to be
