Until August

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,

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean
• Assisted by: Cristóbal Pera (Editor), Anne McLean (Translation)
• Publisher: Knopf
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.08.2025
• EAN: 9781524712914
• ISBN: 978-1-5247-1291-4
• No. of pages: 129
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 178 mm x 11 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature