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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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