Love in the Time of Cholera
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4.3 • 54 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A CLASSIC STORY OF ENDURING LOVE FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
'One of the greatest love stories I have ever read' Oprah, featured in Oprah's Book Club
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'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.
When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?
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'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton
'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph
'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women' The Times
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.
