Philip Hensher

Garbriel García Márquez has been ill-served by his sons

Posthumously published against the author’s wishes, Until August should not detract from Marquez’s best work – but it would have been better left as a curiosity in the archives

Gabriel García Márquez, photographed in Colombia in 1991. [Getty Images]
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    Gabriel García Márquez

    Penguin, pp. 128, £16

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