Penguin Random House has confirmed that Gabriel Garcia Marquez's previously unreleased novel En Agosto Nos Vemos ("

The novel will be released first in Spanish and will have about 150 pages..

The book has been speculated since 1999, when Marquez published the story in the Colombian magazine Cambio.. The story of Ana Magdalena Bach - a middle-aged woman who had an affair on a tropical island where she went to lay flowers on her mother's grave - was supposedly the first chapter Marquez worked on..

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But after the death of the author in 2014, it was believed that this work would remain unpublished, since it was inconvenient for his family to publish an unfinished work..

" They seem to have changed their minds after reading the manuscript,"

Marquez's children, Rodrigo and Gonzalo, said on Friday they consider the work too valuable to hide from Colombia and the world, which has been heavily influenced by Marquez's magical realism stories..

In 2019, the streaming service Netflix acquired the rights to Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude with the aim of making a TV series based on it..