“See you in August” is the latest novel by Gabriel García Márquez and will be published in bookstores in March. The literary event is the starting point of a series of activities in honor of the Nobel Prize in Literature, which also includes the participation of the mythical Colpatria Tower.
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On March 6th, Gabriel García Márquez's final literary legacy will be available in all bookstores in Colombia. For this reason, Penguin Random House, publisher of See you in August, has planned a series of activities to commemorate this cultural event. One of them is the lighting of the Colpatria Tower on March 5th. This is the first time that the iconic building in the northern part of the Las Nieves district pays tribute to a writer.
When the day of publication comes, the publisher will hold a virtual conference at 10 a.m. in which García Márquez's children will participate. Rodrigo García Barcha and Gonzalo García Barcha will talk about their father's latest novel in conversation with Pilar Reyes, editorial director of the PRH literary department.
The significance of the date is double, as it not only marks the publication of the final work of Colombia's only Nobel laureate, but also coincides with his birth and the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of his death. Perhaps this was the reason why the author's family revealed the manuscript of this last work, which was kept in the archives of the house Harry Ransom Center.
What is “In August See You,” García Márquez’s latest novel, about?
In the words of Maribel Luque, director of the Balcells agency, Gabriel García Márquez's latest novel is “an exploration of femininity, sexuality and desire, absolutely captivating and modern” and also represents “a great brooch to the author's legacy”.
The existence of this novel was known in the literary world; However, no one had access to the full reading. The New Yorker and the newspaper La Vanguardia published a small fragment of this work, so it is known that it tells the life of Ana Magdalena Bach, a woman who every year makes a trip to the island where her mother's remains lie .
The author's children, for their part, emphasized as advantages of this work “its inventiveness, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of man and his affection for his experiences and misfortunes, especially in love”.
What year did Gabriel García Márquez win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The Swedish Academy argued that the Colombian writer deserved the highest literary award “for his novels and short stories in which the fantastic and the real are united in a world richly composed of imagination that reflects the life and conflicts of a continent.”