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Book Review: Until August is a pale shadow of the greatness of Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The author wanted this book destroyed; his sons’ decision to publish it posthumously is a mistake
When Gabriel García Márquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, the Swedish Academy said he was “a rare storyteller richly endowed with a material, from imagination and experience, which seems inexhaustible”.
His second novel, 1967’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude, is an undeniable masterpiece. Set in Macondo, the city sprung from the dreams of José Arcadio Buendía, bizarre things happen to his descendants, a madman gets tied to a tree for years, ...
