LoveReading Says
In the preface of this beautiful little book, Rodrigo and Gonzalo Garcia Barcha share a memory of their father in his final years suffering with huge memory loss. He said “Memory is at once my source material and my tool. Without it, there’s nothing.”
Until August was the fruit of one last effort to carry on creating against all odds, a race between his artistic perfectionism and his vanishing mental faculties.
Ten years on they ignored Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ judgement to destroy the book as with fresh eyes they realised what a feat it was and posthumously published it.
And am I glad they did. We get one more book from one of the greatest visionary writers of all time, beloved by his readers. It has all the hallmarks of golden GGM - his poetic use of language, his captivating storytelling, understanding of humankind and love, of course, love - it’s always about love.
This short read of 110 pages is bursting with heart. Originally visiting the island to bury her mother, which was her dying wish, Ana Magdalena Bach returns to the island every year on August 16th
Filled with the erotic adventures of a middle aged Ana this a journey through the years. Through her loves. Through her conquests. Through her books.
And you are pulled in, in the most pleasurable way.
It may not be my favourite of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s but I loved it all the same and drank it in hungrily. The lost novel? Not anymore.
Deborah Maclaren
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Until August Synopsis
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.
Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, and the mysteries of love, from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241686355 |
| Publication date: |
12th March 2024 |
| Author: |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Publisher: |
Viking an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
144 pages |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Press Reviews
'The master of magic realism's slim and inventive last novel is a tale of forbidden love in later life. I read it straight through in one sitting, then got up the next day and did it again' The Times
'No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel Garcìa Márquez' Salman Rushdie
'One of the greatest visionary writers - and one of my favourites from the time I was young' Barack Obama
'Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel Garcìa Márquez did just that' Guardian
'A novel both sexy and disturbing... The lasting impression of Until August is one of deep feeling, astutely observed and beautifully conveyed' Telegraph
About Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1928 in the town of Aracatca, Colombia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he is considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Gabriel Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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