** "_Here Until August_ tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for their beauty, their clarity, and their wisdo
Until August : A novel
✍ Scribed by Gabriel García Márquez; Anne McLean
- Book ID
- 112861720
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593802007
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✦ Synopsis
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • 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 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...
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