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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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 love—an unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.
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      April 15, 2024
      Garc�a M�rquez tries his hand at a steamy potboiler, for better or worse. "This book doesn't work. It must be destroyed." So declared Garc�a M�rquez, tinkering with this novella until his agent quietly approached an editor to help find an ending. The author had a point, but his sons and heirs, "in an act of betrayal," as they write, put the book into print all the same. It's not bad, but it's far from Gabo at his best, a thinly sketched tale of an elegant woman with "pert breasts" who travels to a Caribbean island each August to visit her mother's grave, staying always in the same hotel for a few days, then returning to her bourgeois married life in the city. She sets eyes on a younger man, and he on her, and soon the two are in flagrante: "She wanted to attack, but he revealed himself to be an exquisite lover who raised her unhurriedly to the boiling point." All's well until morning, when 46-year-old Ana Magdalena Bach discovers that he's gone but has left money behind in payment for the good time. Money was not Ana's intent, and it rankles, but all the same she returns year after year, having a quickie romance each time. The story has all the makings of a telenovela, but with a memorable ending that turns on a brilliantly macabre moment. Think of it as a more lyrical version of the 1978 rom-com Same Time Next Year, with perhaps a hint of "A Rose for Emily" and Belle de Jour in the mix: Most of the characters remain ciphers, but one senses that had Garc�a M�rquez lived long enough to finish the book, he would have given them depth. Of some interest to Gabo completists, but casual readers will want to take in his classics first.

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