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An editorial director for Penguin Random House Mexico has revealed that there is a previously unreleased manuscript written by recently deceased author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Penguin Random House Mexico editorial director Cristobal Pera told the Associated Press that Garcia聽Marquez鈥檚 family is still deciding whether the manuscript will be published and, if so, by what publisher. According to the AP, Garcia聽Marquez had decided not to release it.

An excerpt of the manuscript, which reportedly is titled 鈥淲e鈥檒l See Each Other in August,鈥� was released in the Spanish La Vanguardia newspaper. The section appeared to be an opening chapter and follows a woman who takes an annual trip to a tropical island to see her mother鈥檚 grave.

Gerald Martin, a biographer of Garcia聽Marquez, said he had known of the story but thought it took a different form.聽

鈥淭his has come as a surprise to me,鈥� he told the AP. 鈥淭he last time I talked to Gabo about this story it was a stand-alone which he was going to include in a book with three similar but independent stories. Now they're talking about a series of episodes in which the woman turns up and has a different adventure each year. Obviously it makes sense and presumably Gabo really did play with it, presumably some years ago.鈥�

In 2012, Garcia聽Marquez鈥檚 brother announced that the author was diagnosed with dementia and would probably not write again. AP writer Paul Haven said it appears the 鈥淎ugust鈥� manuscript was probably written around the time Garcia聽Marquez worked on his novel 鈥淢emories of my Melancholy Whores,鈥� which was released in 2004.聽

Garcia聽Marquez died on April 17 and is the author of such works as 鈥淟ove in the Time of Cholera鈥� and 鈥淎 Hundred Years of Solitude,鈥� among others. His works sold more copies than anything else in the Spanish language other than the Bible, according to the AP. Garcia聽Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982.