The narrator, titled "We Meet in August," is the fruit of the writer's "last efforts" to "continue writing despite the difficulties," Random House said. The new book by the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" will be available next year in the markets of various Spanish-speaking countries except Mexico.

Marquez is the most translated Spanish novelist since the beginning of the 21st century, ahead of Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges and Mario Vargas Llosa.