“See you in August”: Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumous novel will be published

A posthumous novel by Gabriel García Márquez will be published. “In August we see each other”, will be published throughout Latin America on the day of the birth of the writer, who would have turned 97 years old on March 6, 2024.Within the framework of the Frankfurt Fair, the Penguin Random House group announced the publication with the cover that will carry the book, based on an illustration by the Spanish artist David de las Heras.You may also be interested in: The trailer for “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, the adaptation of García Márquez’s classic, is here”It is an exploration of femininity, sexuality and desire, absolutely captivating and modern. A magnificent finishing touch to the author’s legacy,” praised Maribel Luque, director of the Balcells Agency, when revealing the launch of the new issue. Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumous novelIn 1999 was the first time that the existence of the text that the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature planned to publish was known, which it was known, begins as follows: “He returned to the island on August 16 on the three o’clock ferry. He wore a plaid shirt, jeans, simple low-heeled shoes and no stockings, a satin parasol and, as his only luggage, a beach briefcase. In the taxi line at the dock he went straight to an old, saltpeter-eaten model. The chauffeur greeted her with an old-fashioned greeting and stumbled through the destitute village, with houses of bahareque and roofs of bitter palm, and streets of white sand facing a burning sea. It was then within the framework of the commemoration for the 10th anniversary of the death of García Márquez, which will be celebrated on April 17, that his family reread the text has “merits” and stressed that “nothing prevented its publication”. You may also be interested in: 38 years ago, García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature”There is no reason to prevent us from enjoying the most outstanding aspects of Gabo’s work: his capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of the human being and his affection for his experiences and his misadventures, especially in love,” wrote his sons Gonzalo and Rodrigo García Barcha, in what will be the prologue of the novel.

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