Penguin Random House Love in the Time of Cholera - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014012389X ISBN 13: 9780140123890

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

This love story, translated from the Spanish, tells the story of Florentino Ariza who has loved Fermina Daza for 50 years. When her husband dies, his chance for happiness comes.

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Review:

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 . Garcia Marquez 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"

-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.... Garcia Marquez 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

"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.... Garcia Marquez 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 the Author:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 014012389X
• ISBN 13: 9780140123890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368