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Love in the Time of Cholera - Modern Classics
Gabriel García Márquez
Paperback (06 Sep 2007)


A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquezs Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics.

Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his love tragically rejected. Instead Fermina marriesdistinguished doctor Juvenal Urbino, while Florentino can only wait silently for her. He can never forget his first and only true love. Then, fifty-one years, nine months and four days later, Ferminas husband dies unexpectedly. At last Florentino has another chance to declare his feelings and discover if a passion that has endured for half a century will remain unrequited, in a rich, fantastical and humane celebration of love in all its many forms.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of several novels, including Leaf Storm (1955), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

If you enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera, you might like Marquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer
Daily Telegraph

An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Marquezs best fiction
The Times

The greatest luxury ... is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality ... the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this centurys most evocative writers
Anne Tyler, author of The Accidental Tourist


Product details

Format Paperback | 432 pages
Dimensions 128 x 198 x 25mm | 315g
Publication date 22 Apr 2009
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780141189208
Bestsellers rank 15,498