About the Book: Until August
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE
TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach
surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to
escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every
August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one
night takes a new lover.
Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys
further each year into