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Until August
- Author
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 12 March 2024
- Run Time
- 2 hours 29 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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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.
‘No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García 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 García Márquez did just that’ Guardian
©2024 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García Márquez
Salman Rushdie
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Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that
Guardian
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One of the greatest visionary writers – and one of my favourites from the time I was young
Barack Obama
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The greatest Hispanic novelist since Cervantes
Independent
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An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny
Sunday Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Narrator
- Cristobal Pera, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Rodrigo Garcia
- Duration
- 2 hours 29 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 March 2024
- ISBN
- 9781405965644
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Fiction in translation
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDESitting 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.‘No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García 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 García Márquez did just that’ Guardian©2024 Gabriel Garcia Marquez (P)2024 Penguin Audio
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