As of: March 12, 2024, 1:00 p.m
By: Sven Trautwein
Comments
Press
Split
The way Gabriel García Márquez writes about love is unique and distinctive.
Now his last book is available.
Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian master of magical realism, achieved worldwide fame with his bestsellers “100 Years of Solitude,” “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” and “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
Now, ten years after his death, another work by the Nobel Prize winner in literature is being published: “See you in August”.
Despite García Márquez's wish, who suffered from advanced dementia, not to publish any further works, his two sons have now published this short novel.
Gabriel García Márquez “See you in August”: That’s what the book is about
“See you in August” by Gabriel García Márquez will be published posthumously.
© Mario Guzman/dpa/KiWi (montage)
Ana Magdalena Bach has an annual tradition: She visits a Caribbean island in August.
She travels by ferry to commemorate her mother with a bouquet of gladioli.
After this loving gesture, she checks into a tourist hotel and treats herself to a ham and cheese toast at the bar in the evening.
But this year, a stranger breaks her routine by asking her out for a drink.
Despite her background, upbringing and her understanding of marital fidelity, she accepts his advances and takes him to her room.
This event has a profound impact on her and her life.
So in August of the next year she returns to the island with great anticipation, not only to visit her mother's grave.
Gabriel García Márquez's novels are always characterized by masterful character drawing, vivid and atmospherically dense descriptions, and the musicality of the language.
“See You in August” is one such masterpiece that will captivate both die-hard García Márquez fans and new readers alike.
A selection of García Márquez's novels in order
Leaf storm
Report from a shipwrecked man
One day after Saturday
Under the star of evil
A hundred years of loneliness
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Chronicle of an announced death
The hostage taking
Love in the time of cholera (promotional link)
The general in his labyrinth
About love and other demons
My news
Read the top book titles on the Spiegel bestseller list in March
Four novels to look forward to reading in March
In London's St. Paul's Cathedral, bookworms can read between 22,000 books to sleep
Top Ten Most Beautiful Libraries in the World: A Cathedral for Reading Books
One of the “most beautiful libraries in the world” is located in Münchenlesen
Reader's dream come true: night reading in the hidden library of St. Paul's Cathedral
With “See You in August,” Gabriel García Márquez presents a linguistically dense and clever novel in which the years that have passed before publication are in no way noticeable.
Each sentence unleashes the magic of the language for which the Nobel Prize winner is famous.
A must for lovers of a deep love story.
Gabriel García Márquez “See you in August”
Translated by Dagmar Ploetz
2024 KiWi, ISBN-13 978-3-462-00642-1
Price: Hardcover €23, e-book €19.99, 144 pages (different format)
Stay up to date on new releases, book tips and news from comedy, streaming and music with the free newsletter from our partner 24books.de.
Gabriel García Márquez: About the author
Gabriel García Márquez, born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927, began his career as a journalist after studying law.
His narrative and journalistic work is impressively extensive.
With the publication of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” he consolidated his reputation as one of the most important and successful writers in the world.
In 1982 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
He died in Mexico City in 2014.