Until August, the extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, invites readers into the contemplative world of Ana Magdalena Bach. Sitting alone by the lagoon's blue waters, Ana reflects on the men at the hotel bar. Despite twenty-seven years of a happy marriage and a life filled with love for her husband and children, she is drawn to the island where her mother is buried every August, where she indulges in a night with a new lover.

Through the sultry Caribbean evenings, brimming with salsa and boleros, Ana delves deeper into her desires and the fears nestled in her heart. Until August is a constantly surprising and joyously sensual exploration of freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the enigmatic nature of love. It is a profound meditation and an unexpected gift from one of the world's most revered writers.

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This mesmerizing work introduces us to Antoinette Cosway, a sensual and protected young woman who is sold into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester. Rhys portrays Cosway amidst a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally drive a woman out of her mind.

A new introduction by the award-winning Edwidge Danticat, author most recently of Claire of the Sea Light, expresses the enduring importance of this work. Drawing on her own Caribbean background, she illuminates the setting’s impact on Rhys and her astonishing work.