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Until August

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內容簡介 馬奎斯遺作《八月見》，寫熟齡女性禁忌欲望馬奎斯生前明言銷毀之小說《八月見》在全球同步出版，英國版更空降《星期日泰晤士報》暢榜前十，顯見讀者對魔幻寫實主義大師的熱愛。豐滿、優雅的中年婦女安娜，每年8月都會前往加勒比海小島造訪母親墓地，住同一間旅館，然後回歸城市中的幸福資產階級家庭。安娜唯能在與陌生年輕男子歡愛中感受全新的自己，小島行是安娜掙脫孤獨禁錮的年度放風。耽美、幽夢、情欲，一部用「愛情」超越「孤獨」的曠世經典之作！他們兩人靜靜地躺在那裡，等待彼此靈魂的騷動。而她心裡明白，一個全新和自信的自我已然重生。「我再也回不去原來的自己了。」安娜在心中不斷重複說著這句話，她的婚姻已邁入第二十七個年頭，沒有什麼重大的理由，足以讓她逃離與家人共創的幸福生活，但她的心就像那段不容懷疑的單純歲月，一去不復返。這究竟是怎麼開始的？安娜陷入了沉思――八月，一個讓她感到矛盾的季節，混亂和猶豫填滿了她的內心，欲望與期待又令她躍躍欲試。每年此時，她都會搭乘渡輪前往埋葬母親的那座小島，一年一度的島嶼之行宛如一個不可抗拒的邀請，因為她會在此結識一位露水情人，並度過一個晚上。年復一年，愛情更迭，但安娜總是不斷想起最初的那個男人，因為他永遠改變了她的命運，而她對他卻一無所知，只記得那晚一抹悲傷的薰衣草香，隱隱飄散在暴風雨洗滌過的空氣中。此刻的安娜獨自坐在蔚藍的海水旁，凝視著酒吧裡的杯光酒影，她想走出孤獨的禁錮，讓自己俯向充滿魅惑的黑夜，蠢動的靈魂正在她的耳邊呢喃：今晚，妳可以成為一個全然不同的人……2014年，馬奎斯離開了這個世界，他的妻子梅西迪絲承諾：「八月見。」六年後，梅西迪絲不可思議地在八月過世。十年後，《八月見》終於面世。這本書讓我們看見了一個人的命定，並不如你想像的那樣迫近，也不如你以為的那般遙遠。每個人都是孤獨的，因為存在就是孤獨的，但也唯有愛情才能超越孤獨。本書介出自皇冠出版《八月見: 馬奎斯生前最後一部小說遺稿, 傾盡最後力氣的生涯創作結晶》THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDESitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.Amid sultry days and tropical downpours, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire, and the fear that sits quietly at her heart.Constantly surprising and wonderfully sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, and the mysteries of love, from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.‘No writer since Dickens was so widely read, and so deeply loved, as Gabriel García Márquez’ Salman Rushdie‘One of the greatest visionary writers – and one of my favourites from the time I was young’ Barack Obama‘Few writers can be said to have written books that have changed the whole course of literature. Gabriel García Márquez did just that’ Guardian

作者介紹

作者介紹 Gabriel Garcia MarquezGabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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最佳賣點 : THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE