Until August

<p>Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca Colombia in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper <i>El Espectador </i>and as a foreign correspondent in Rome Paris Barcelona Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories including <i>Eyes of a Blue Dog </i>(1947) <i>Leaf Storm </i>(1955) <i>No One Writes</i><i>to the Colonel </i>(1958) <i>In Evil Hour </i>(1962) <i>Big Mama's Funeral </i>(1962) <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude </i>(1967) <i>Innocent Erendira and Other Stories </i>(1972) <i>The Autumn of the Patriarch </i>(1975) <i>Chronicle of a Death Foretold </i>(1981) <i>Love in the Time of Cholera </i>(1985) <i>The General in His Labyrinth </i>(1989) <i>Strange Pilgrims </i>(1992) <i>Of Love and Other Demons </i>(1994) and<i> Memories of My Melancholy Whores </i>(2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.<br><br><b>Gabriel Garcia Marquez</b> (1927-2014) was a short-story writer novelist journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper <i>El Espectador</i> and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York Rome Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i> and <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.</p> <b>No writer since Dickens was so widely read and so deeply loved as Gabriel García Márquez </b> <b>Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that </b> <b>One of the greatest visionary writers – and one of my favourites from the time I was young </b> <b>The greatest Hispanic novelist since Cervantes </b> <b>An exquisite writer wise compassionate and extremely funny </b> <p><b>THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF <i>LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA</i> AND <i>ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE</i></b><br><br>Sitting alone overlooking the still and blue lagoon Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet every August she travels here to the island where her mother is buried and for one night takes a new lover.<br><br>Amid sultry days and tropical downpours lotharios and conmen Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.<br><br>Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual <i>Until August</i> is a profound meditation on freedom regret and the mysteries of love from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.<br><br><br><b>‘No writer since Dickens was so widely read and so deeply loved as Gabriel García Márquez’ Salman Rushdie<br><br>‘One of the greatest visionary writers – and one of my favourites from the time I was young’ Barack Obama<br><br>‘Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that’ <i>Guardian</i> </b></p>