Until August
Published on 7. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-4059-6427-2 (ISBN)
Description
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
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.
'I read it straight through in one sitting, then got up the next day and did it again' The Times
'Sunny, sultry, even tipsy, but with a genuine sting' Guardian
'One of the greatest visionary writers - and one of my favourites from the time I was young' Barack Obama
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.
'I read it straight through in one sitting, then got up the next day and did it again' The Times
'Sunny, sultry, even tipsy, but with a genuine sting' Guardian
'One of the greatest visionary writers - and one of my favourites from the time I was young' Barack Obama
Reviews / Votes
The master of magic realism's slim and inventive last novel is a tale of forbidden love in later life . . . Inventively enjoyable and working to its surprising, pleasing ending. I read it straight through in one sitting, then got up the next day and did it again * The Times * A novel both sexy and disturbing. The novel's chief concern is love, or more specifically sex - a subject Marquez always accorded the diligent, amused and unashamed attention it deserves. The lasting impression of Until August is one of deep feeling, astutely observed and beautifully conveyed * The Telegraph * Sunny, sultry, even tipsy, but with a genuine sting * Guardian * Though exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman the uncontested protagonist on her own journey of self-discovery. A remarkable book * New York Review of Books * No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- 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 Garcia Marquez did just that * Guardian * The greatest Hispanic novelist since Cervantes * Independent * An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny * Sunday Telegraph * Contains enough tenderness and beauty to recommend it to Garcia Marquez's many fans * Wall Street Journal *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
137 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4059-6427-2 (9781405964272)
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Until August
The extraordinary lost novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.