Until August
Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon.
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.
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Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, going on to work as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and a foreign correspondent stationed in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York.
As a journalist, short-story writer, novelist and screenwriter he became well known for his unique literary style and use of magical realism - describing reality through magical elements and events. His most popular novels include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
He wrote several more novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005).
He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 – primarily for Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude).
Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Viking
- : 0.245
- : 01 July 2023
- : 2.5 Centimeters X 13.2 Centimeters X 20.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gabriel Garcia Márquez
- : Hardback
- : English
- : 863.64
- : 144