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Ten years after his departure, the world celebrates the publication of a new novel by Gabriel García Márquez, ‘Until August’.
The magical realism, the enchanted prose of his genius, and the virtue of continuing to exist even after death have led lovers of the works of Gabriel García Márquez, Gabo to his friends, to once again enjoy his literature with the announced release of Until August, or En Agosto Nos Vemos (in Spanish). This is a new unpublished work of the unforgettable Colombian Nobel Prize winner.
The release date for the Spanish version of the book is Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The release date for the English version is Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
To celebrate this commendable event, considered the literary event of the decade, the publishing house Penguin Random House will illuminate the Colpatria Tower in Bogotá. It will be the first time in history that a book by a Colombian author will be the protagonist of the iconic capital skyscraper.
The posthumous work was given the green light by the García Barcha family after they concluded that it deserved to be read.
‘Until August’, is considered by Maribel Luque, director of the Balcells Agency, “an exploration of femininity, sexuality, and desire, absolutely captivating and modern. A magnificent final touch to the author’s legacy.” The world seems to be counting the hours to receive it.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE NOVEL
“Every August, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to the island where her mother is buried to visit the tomb where she lies. Those visits end up being an irresistible invitation to become a different person for one night a year.”
‘Until August’ is a celebration of life, of the resistance to enjoyment despite the passage of time and female desire. An unexpected gift for the countless readers of the Colombian artist, which adds to his most important novels: One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, In Evil Hour, The General in His Labyrinth, Love in the Time of Cholera, etc.
The new Gabriel García Márquez novel will be published in all Spanish-speaking countries by the Random House imprint, except in Mexico. However, the extensive list of international editors includes many of the world’s most prestigious imprints, such as Knopf in the United States and Canada, and Viking in the United Kingdom (both imprints of Penguin Random House).
Likewise, Grasset in France, Mondadori in Italy, Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Germany, Meulenhoff in the Netherlands, Gyldendal in Denmark, Dom Quixote in Portugal, Record in Brazil, Minumsa in South Korea, among others.
SYNOPSIS OF THE NOVEL
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • 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 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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