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Until August
Critic Reviews
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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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Mar 12nd, 2024
- Pages: 144
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.47in - 5.02in - 0.72in - 0.47lb
- EAN: 9780593801994
- Categories: • Literary• Women• Family Life - Marriage & Divorce
About the Author
More books by Gabriel García Márquez
What people are saying
"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... The novel promises to be full of the absurd circumstances the Colombian magical realism master is known for."
"Another jolt lies in the surreal payoff, which is entirely García Márquez’s own, chosen in 2010, his editor states, contra the belief of García Márquez’s agent that her client didn’t have an ending; satisfyingly symmetrical, it lends this gentle diversion the depth of fable."
"His intelligence and language have ensured that his best work remains undiminished. If you’re unfamiliar with that work, a feast of originality and inventiveness awaits you. The value of this book may be to give readers the chance to mourn anew the passing of a beloved writer."
Critics’ reviews
What people are saying
"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... The novel promises to be full of the absurd circumstances the Colombian magical realism master is known for."
"Another jolt lies in the surreal payoff, which is entirely García Márquez’s own, chosen in 2010, his editor states, contra the belief of García Márquez’s agent that her client didn’t have an ending; satisfyingly symmetrical, it lends this gentle diversion the depth of fable."
