Love in the Time of Cholera
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4.1 • 297 Ratings
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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
Gabriel Marquez demonstrates his genius once more
This novel not only tells a compelling narrative chalked full of historical references and political undertones but it explores the nature of love. Western culture is polluted by superficial, half hearted narratives about love, it is refreshing to read about love with the lucidity or Marquez's writing.
A love story by another name
This was the second of Marquez’s books that I have read. I am now convinced that he maybe one of the top three if not greatest literary minds. He created mysterious yet still familiar worlds where every story that we all know about life plays out. But like all his books the title misrepresents the sweeping magnitude of what it encompasses.
This one is a story of love in every phase and type. From the classically romantic to the utterly disturbed. How it is birthed, nurtured, smothered, and reborn. It is a story of war, in the heart, in the land, as old as time. It is a story of aging and the regrets born of it. It’s madness, fantasy, bitter reality, and the relief of life all in one experience. I feel all the more human having read it.
The madness in his books is what makes them all the more endearing to me; in a Big Fish kind of way. Much like in science fiction, these fantastical tales and settings are just a back drop for a deeply human story. The fact that Marquez reaches back into the past and not into the future for these awe inspiring stories is even more impressive. They also make some of the more disturbing parts more manageable because of the plot purpose they serve.
Just couldn’t get into it.
I tried. I really tried. But the story didn’t grab me.