Gabriel García Márquez: Sons publish last novel that late author wanted destroyed - BBC News

The Nobel Prize-winning author's son explains why the "betrayal" of his father's wishes is justified.

1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Gabriel García Márquez is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of CholeraBy Yasmin RufoBBC NewsWhen Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez died a decade ago, he left behind a novel he had written while struggling with dementia.

In his final days, he told his sons the book must be destroyed.

However they defied their father and, in what they have called an act of "betrayal", have published the book.

Until August has received mixed reviews, with The Guardian's critic describing it as a "sketch, as blurry and flawed as sketches generally are".

"But a sketch from a master is welcome," Lucy Hughes-Hallett added.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68488756

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