The title of Gabriel García Márquez’s posthumous novel published in 2024 is Until August.
The English-language edition appeared on March 12, 2024, a decade after the Colombian Nobel laureate’s death. Its original Spanish title is En agosto nos vemos, meaning “We’ll See Each Other in August.” The book follows Ana Magdalena Bach, a married woman who visits an unnamed Caribbean island each August to place flowers on her mother’s grave.
Until August is unusual in Márquez’s career because it was published from a work he had continued revising but never considered fully finished. His sons authorized publication after reviewing multiple drafts and believing the manuscript still contained substantial literary value. That decision created debate because Márquez had reportedly expressed doubts about the work late in life.
Readers sometimes confuse this title with Memories of My Melancholy Whores, another late Márquez work involving an aging protagonist and questions of desire. Until August is the 2024 posthumous publication; Love in the Time of Cholera and The Autumn of the Patriarch were published during his lifetime.