Description from Goodreads
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.
My Thoughts on the Book
While I can appreciate the author's writing style, Until August illustrates the point of not publishing unfinished works posthumously. When reading it, I felt there was something unfinished about Until August, as it gave off the vibes of being a draft of a novel or novella, rather than being the finished "product" so to speak. It's almost like either the publishers or someone else wanted to milk the Gabriel García Márquez name for what it was worth, rather than the quality of the actual text.
I'm not saying it's a bad read by any means, but it was a bit unpolished.
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