Until August

No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García Márquez

Salman Rushdie

Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that

Guardian

One of the greatest visionary writers – and one of my favourites from the time I was young

Barack Obama

The greatest Hispanic novelist since Cervantes

Independent

An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny

Sunday Telegraph

The master of magic realism’s slim and inventive last novel is a tale of forbidden love in later life . . . 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

The Times

Sunny, sultry, even tipsy, but with a genuine sting

Guardian

A novel both sexy and disturbing. The novel’s chief concern is love, or more specifically sex – a subject Marquez always accorded the diligent, amused and unashamed attention it deserves. The lasting impression of Until August is one of deep feeling, astutely observed and beautifully conveyed

The Telegraph

Though exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel García Márquez’s work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman the uncontested protagonist on her own journey of self-discovery. A remarkable book

New York Review of Books

Contains enough tenderness and beauty to recommend it to García Márquez’s many fans

Wall Street Journal

Delivers graceful insight into the fickle human heart, serving as an absorbing epilogue to García Márquez’s towering oeuvre

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