Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

About Love in the Time of Cholera

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.

About Love in the Time of Cholera

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people’s lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, García Márquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings. Now available for the first time in the Contemporary Classics series!

About Love in the Time of Cholera

Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude.

About Love in the Time of Cholera

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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.

Praise

“This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary.” —Newsweek

“Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing.” —Chicago Tribune

“Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile.” —Newsday

“A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age.” —The Washington Post Book World

About Gabriel García Márquez

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended a Jesuit college and began studying law, but broke off his studies to pursue journalism as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a… More about Gabriel García Márquez

About Gabriel García Márquez

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended a Jesuit college and began studying law, but broke off his studies to pursue journalism as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a… More about Gabriel García Márquez

About Gabriel García Márquez

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended a Jesuit college and began studying law, but broke off his studies to pursue journalism as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a… More about Gabriel García Márquez

About Gabriel García Márquez

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended a Jesuit college and began studying law, but broke off his studies to pursue journalism as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a… More about Gabriel García Márquez