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Title details for Until August by Gabriel García Márquez - Available

Until August

by Gabriel García Márquez
Anne McLean
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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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  • Release date

    March 12, 2024

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593913567
      • File size: 71836 KB
      • Duration: 02:29:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Gabriel Garcia Mrquez's last novel, although far from his best, deserves a better reading than it gets in this audio version. Catalina Sandino Moreno's English pronunciation is decidedly imperfect. A Spanish accent is not necessarily a problem with a Latin American novel, but an accent that interferes with our understanding of the text is not ideal. Moreno's phrasing also sometimes diminishes the clarity. The novel itself is quite interesting, despite the revelation that the author wanted it suppressed. It is the story of a woman's sexual and personal awakening over several years through a series of August visits to her mother's grave. While it lacks the depth of Garcia Mrquez's best work, it still has his wonderful characters and prose. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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