1: 'She felt mischievous, joyful, capable of anything.'
The final novel by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez. A happily married woman travels to the island where her mother is buried and embarks on an erotic adventure. Read by Maggie Service.
by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Part One: A happily married woman travels to the island where her mother is buried and embarks on an erotic adventure.
The publication of a discovered novel by Nobel laureate Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez is an unexpected and thrilling event in international literature. His final novel, completed just before his death in 2014, was written while Márquez was suffering from dementia.
Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
A beautiful, surprising, sensual novel about regret and the mysteries of love.
An EcoAudio certified production.
Read by Maggie Service
Translated by Anne McLean
Abridged by Siân Preece
Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane
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- Mon 1 Apr 2024 22:45Â鶹Éç Radio 4