Discussion of Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Please read the book before the event! It is available in English on Kindle through Amazon. The original title is EN AGOSTO NOS VEMOS for those who can or want to read it in Spanish. The book is quite short -- Protected content .
Wine and snacks will be provided.
Sitting 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.
Protected content 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.
Protected content surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love鈥攁n unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.
144 pp. (English translation)
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