In a brief ceremony within the framework of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Penguin Random House Publishing Group has announced that the posthumous novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “See you in August” will be published on March 6, 2024, the author’s birthday. The cover of the work is an illustration by the Spanish artist David de las Herasone of the most prestigious cover artists today.
After toasting the international editors of García Márquez, Nuria CabutíCEO of the publishing group, has recalled the more than fifty years that have passed since the publication of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” in the South American publishing housenow the emblematic label of the group in Argentina, and how the appearance of their posthumous novel constitutes a new chapter in that relationship.
Furthermore, he thanked Gonzalo and Rodrigo García Barchachildren of the author, and the Balcells agency, the possibility of reaching the countless readers of Gabriel Garcia Marquez this work. For its part, Maribel Luquedirector of the Balcells Agency has noted that the book is: “An exploration of femininity, sexuality and desire, absolutely captivating and modern. “A magnificent finishing touch to the author’s legacy.”
“See you in August” was among the papers deposited in the Harry Ransom Center until, with the idea of commemorating the ten years since the death of the Colombian Nobel Prize and after rereading the work, the family concluded that it has “many and very enjoyable merits and nothing that prevents enjoying the most outstanding aspects of Gabo’s work: his capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of being. human being and his affection for his experiences and his misfortunes, especially in love.”
In Argentina the unpublished novel will be published by Sudamericana, a historic label that has been publishing the Colombian Nobel Prize winner in Literature since 1967, and in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries by the Random House label. The extensive list of international publishers includes many of the most prestigious labels in the world, such as Knopf in the United States and Canada and viking in the United Kingdom (both Penguin Random House imprints), Grasset in France and Mondadori in Italy.
