Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.9 • 21 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a heartbreaking modern classic. Florentino Ariza has pined for his first love, Fermina Daza, for more than 50 years; after Fermina’s husband dies, Florentino swoops back into her life. Although the reunited lovers fall for each other again in old age, theirs is no straightforward love story—it’s a tale of obsession, desire, jealousy, suffering, and fear of aging and death. García Márquez’s intimate, lyrical prose—with just a touch of his trademark magic realism—makes us feel the heights and depths of his characters’ emotions.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this chronicle of a unique love triangle, the Nobel laureate's trademark ``ironic vision and luminous evocation of South America'' persist. ``It is a fully mature novel in scope and perspective, flawlessly translated, as rich in ideas as in humanity,'' praised PW . 250,000 first printing.
Customer Reviews
A terrific tale of love and obsession.
A terrific tale of love and obsession
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😳 terribly strange, Even after studying motifs and themes. How many people are lying to themselves this deserve any attention I will never understand.