'See you in August') is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez published posthumously in March 2024.
The only Marquez novel with a female protagonist, the stories in feature a woman's annual August trips to an island where her mother is buried and her lovers.
Although García Márquez had requested that his sons ensure the destruction of the novel, they found literary worth in the novel, and chose to edit and release it, stating "We did think about it for about three seconds - was it a betrayal to my parents, to my father's [wishes]?
[3][12] Over 250 thousand copies were preordered in Latin America,[13] and in Colombia, the book was the third most sold novel by bookseller Librería Nacional in the week before its release.
[17] Lucy Hughes-Hallett gave a negative review of the novel for The Guardian, criticizing the prose style, structure, and inconsistencies; conversely, Anthony Cummins, also writing for The Guardian, called the novel "better than [García Márquez] had feared".
[18][19] A review for El País wrote that the novel "had virtues", but that it could not live up to García Márquez's best work.