Would I recommend this book if it was not written by the grandmaster? I'm not so sure. Is it good that the book is published, even when some claim that Garcia Marquez never wanted it to be published? I guess it is. The story is about a woman with adult children, a workaholic husband and the opportunity to meet a man on the island where her mother his buried, and that she visits every year in August. The island and the month become her annual escape from the predictability of her life.
It's a story of loneliness, freedom and the lack of it, of adventure and routine. It's a nice enough book and well enough written. And anything Garcia Marquez has written is above the average. This is further explained in the note at the end of the book, written by the editor and summarising the discussions he had with Garcia Marquez on the different versions and reviews of this book.
It's short and good. Give it a try.
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