Until August

Every August, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to a Caribbean island to lay flowers on her mother's grave, and each visit gradually becomes something other than an act of mourning. Published after Gabriel García Márquez's death, this short late novel turns on repetition and small deviations from habit, following a married woman's private reckoning with desire, freedom and the shape her life has taken. The prose carries the sensory warmth readers associate with his earlier work, in a far more compressed form. For the shelf: • The final novel from the Nobel laureate, issued posthumously • A compact story built around one annual journey • Themes of memory, marriage, longing and self-determination • English translation of a Spanish-language literary work For admirers of García Márquez and for readers of literary fiction in translation, stocked at Boipoka.