{"product_id":"until-august-isbn-9780593801994","title":"Until August","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST SELLER • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e—a moving tale of female desire and abandon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSitting 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConstantly surprising, joyously sensual, \u003ci\u003eUntil August\u003c\/i\u003e 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.“Contains enough tenderness and beauty to recommend it to García Márquez’s many fans.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Far more than a coda to a magnificent career . . . Anne McLean’s marvelous rendering of García Márquez’s posthumous \u003ci\u003eUntil August \u003c\/i\u003econtinues the tradition, immersing us in the dreamy richness of the author’s fictional worlds, amid characters pummeled by the demands of marriage, family and the dead . . . McLean’s nuanced translation harkens back to the maestro’s canonical novels while evoking, in a composition as tight as a Rembrandt portrait, the ache of human need.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“García Márquez should be read because he is so influential a writer, one who remodelled his country’s perception of itself and reshaped its literature and that of the wider world . . . Yet more than this, unlike so many other ‘great writers,’ his books are enjoyable. Inventive storytelling comes with indelible characters and arresting images served up with episodes of sharp psychological acuity . . . Love—ecstatic, forbidden, transgressive and especially between older people—is one of his great subjects . . . \u003ci\u003eUntil August \u003c\/i\u003eis inventively enjoyable and working to its surprising, pleasing ending. I read it straight through in one sitting, then got up the next day and did it again.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Times \u003c\/i\u003e(London)\u003c\/b\u003eGABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera.\u003c\/i\u003e He died in 2014.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304049463525,"sku":"NP9780593801994","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593801994.jpg?v=1767743300","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/until-august-isbn-9780593801994","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}