They publish “In August See You”, the posthumous novel by Gabriel García Márquez

A new book by the late Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez It has been published ten years after his death. It is “See you in August” and was presented this March 6 by his sons Rodrigo and Gonzalo García.

The posthumous novel of the Nobel Prize winner in Literature addresses the story of Ana Magdalena Bach, a high society woman who makes frequent trips to a Caribbean island to visit her mother’s grave. Likewise, the protagonist will explore the limits of her sexual freedom, thus becoming, in the writer’s most feminist novel, according to his children.

“In this book, sex is a very powerful expression of what you want and what you don’t want, how you define yourself. That Ana Magdalena Bach decides to give this to herself is definitely a gesture of individualism. And in her case, feminism”Rodrigo said exclusively for El Comercio, last year.

The book has been published under the imprint of Penguin Random House, In Peru it has an approximate cost of S/ 59However, in some bookstores it is already out of stock.

The publication of the writer’s last narrative work was made on the 97th anniversary of his birth (March 6), as it is remembered, the Nobel Prize winner died in April 2014. The work has 150 pages.

García Márquez’s eldest son reported that this book It was one of the last that the author wrote before he became ill, back in 2010.

Although the writer has asked not to publish that work, his children considered that due to their father’s mental state, It was possible that this decision was not correct.

“We didn’t understand why Gabo said that the book didn’t make sense, that it didn’t work, that it wasn’t understood. It was then that it occurred to us that, perhaps, he was the one who no longer understood it. In his illness, there came a time when he was unable to read.”commented the eldest of the Garcías.

That is why they called on the editor Cristóbal Pera, who worked in the past with García Márquez, to organize the Nobel manuscripts, housed in the Harry Ransom Center, at the University of Texas, and then publish them.

“He made a version that we considered optimal, without adding or changing a single word. We have even left some small contradictions. It is a book that is not completely polished, not completely finished because Gabo’s powers ran out, but we always thought it was worth reading. Let the readers themselves judge whether it is worth it or not.”Rodrigo added.