Gabo is the most translated Spanish-language writer in the world and his literary legacy has inspired works from Midnight’s Children to Disney’s Encanto. An English edition has not yet been announced. Reading it once again almost 10 years after his death we discovered that the text had many and very enjoyable merits and nothing to prevent enjoying the most outstanding 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 misadventures, especially in love, possibly the main theme of all his work,” they said in a press release.Īmong the few details made public are that the book will contain five separate sections centred around Ana Magdalena and will number about 150 pages in total. “We’ll See Each Other in August was the result of a last effort to continue creating against the wind and tide. García Márquez’s children Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha said on Friday that they deemed the work too precious to be hidden away from Colombia and the wider world, which has been heavily influenced by Márquez’s critically acclaimed tales of magical realism. “It seems they changed their mind after reading the manuscript!” “Until now the position of the two children was that it would not be published,” said Jaime Abello, director of the Gabo Foundation. The tale of Ana Magdalena Bach, a middle-aged woman who has an erotic affair while visiting a tropical island to lay flowers on her mother’s grave, was allegedly the first chapter Márquez was working on.īut after the internationally acclaimed author affectionately known as Gabo died in 2014, it was believed the work would remain unseen as his family was thought to be uncomfortable publishing an unfinished work. Speculation has surrounded the unpublished title ever since 1999 when García Márquez published a short story in the Colombian magazine Cambio.
“I had heard rumours of some manuscripts, but nothing more than rumours. “No?! A Gabriel García Márquez book?” said Juan Moreno Blanco, a professor at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, who was lost for words at the news.
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