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A new collection of journalism from one of the great titans of 20th century literature "I don't want to be remembered for One Hundred Years of Solitude or for the Nobel Prize but rather for my journalism," Gabriel García Márquez said in the final years of his life. And while some of his journalistic writings have been made available over the years, this is the first volume to gather a representative selection from across the first four decades of his career--years during which he worked as a full-time, often muckraking, and controversial journalist, even as he penned the fiction that would bring him the Nobel Prize in 1982. Here are the first pieces he wrote while working for newspapers in the coastal Colombian cities of Cartagena and Barranquilla . . . his longer, more fictionlike reportage from Paris and Rome . . . his monthly columns for Spain's El País. And while all the work points in style, wit, depth, and passion to his fiction, these fifty pieces are, more than anything, a revelation of the writer working at the profession he believed to be "the best in the world." 'García Márquez always thought of himself as a journalist first and foremost and this brilliant collection goes a long way towards justifying that belief.' Salman Rushdie

Una historia sobre el amor, como solo Gabriel García Márquez sabe contar. Cada año, Ana Magdalena Bach viaja en agosto a una isla del Caribe para colocar un ramo de gladiolos en la tumba de su madre. Después, se dirige a un hotel turístico y cena sola en la barra con un sándwich de queso y jamón. Sin embargo, esta vez un hombre la invita a tomar algo. Aunque esto no se ajusta a su origen, educación ni a su concepto de fidelidad conyugal, acepta sus avances y lo lleva a su habitación. Esta experiencia transforma su vida. Así, el agosto siguiente regresa a la isla, no solo para visitar la tumba de su madre. Como siempre en la obra de García Márquez, cautivan la complejidad de los personajes, las descripciones vívidas y la musicalidad del lenguaje. "En agosto nos vemos" es una pequeña obra maestra que encantará tanto a los fans de García Márquez como a nuevos lectores.