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In Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumously-released novel, Until August, a woman visits the island where her mother is buried, a nameless speck off the Caribbean with blue lagoons and herons that call only at night. After laying a bouquet of gladioli on the panoramic hilltop that provides her mother’s resting place, Ana Magdalena Bach returns to the third-rate hotel in which she has booked a room before taking the ferry back home, shamelessly flirting with a silver-haired m...

Should Until August, which the great Colombian novelist didn’t want published, have seen the light of day?

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The narrative voice is enthralling, the plot is cleverly creative. The characters are complex, contradictory and engaging.

Posthumous novel is constructed as a fugue, with a heroine named after the wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach

We all benefit when works by great artists that are marked for destruction are instead preserved.

Inside the ethically thorny world of posthumous publishing.

Inside the ethically thorny world of posthumous publishing

The late Colombian author’s ‘lost’ last fiction about a middle-aged woman’s erotic trysts is a breezy romp of modest ambition