An unpublished novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez announced for next year, ten years after his death

2023-04-30T04:53:36.331Z

Highlights: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the famous One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nobel Prize in Literature, died in 2014. Random House has announced that it will release next spring an unpublished novel by him. En Agosto nos vemos tells the story of five journeys over 150 pages by a 52-year-old woman who, every August 16, visits her mother's grave on a Caribbean island. On each of her trips, the woman has an affair with a stranger, the book says.

In France, since last year, the publisher Gallimard has been publishing posthumous books by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the author of Voyage au bout de la nuit. But next year, in Latin America, the literary event...

An unpublished novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez announced for next year, ten years after his death

Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez outside his home in Mexico City on his 87th birthday in March 2014. AP - Eduardo Verdugo

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In France, since last year, the publisher Gallimard publishes posthumous books by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the author of Voyage au bout de la nuit. But next year, in Latin America, the literary event should be the publication of a new novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the famous One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nobel Prize in Literature, died in 2014. But the publishing house Random House has announced that it will release next spring an unpublished novel by him.

The case dates back to 1999 when, in Madrid, Gabriel Garcia Marquez presented during a reading a tale, the starting point, he explained, of a future book – which will ultimately never be published in his lifetime.

It will therefore be done for the ten years of Gabo's death. En Agosto nos vemos ("We will see each other in August") tells the story of five journeys over 150 pages by a 52-year-old woman who, every August 16, visits her mother's grave on a Caribbean island and who, on each of her trips, has an affair with a stranger.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, known for rewriting his novels many times, had not arrived at a version that suited him, explained his publisher, a year after his death. All versions of the book remained, along with the writer's other personal archives, at the University of Texas, which had purchased them from his family after his death.

And finally, after years of hesitation, his sons gave the green light for the book to be published, believing that their father's work was "too precious not to be read in Colombia and the rest of the world." According to the Cervantes Institute, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is today the most translated Spanish-language writer in the world.

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An unpublished novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez announced for next year, ten years after his death

An unpublished novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez announced for next year, ten years after his death

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