Love in the Time of Cholera - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141023473 ISBN 13: 9780141023472

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2006

Synopsis

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart.
But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

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Review:

" A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision." --"The New York Times
"" A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy . . . humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary. - "Newsweek
"" The greatest luxury, as in all of Garci a Ma rquez' s books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality . . . the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century' s most evocative writers." --Anne Tyler, "Chicago Sun-Times Book Week
"" Revolutionary in daring to suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of immortality-- youthful idiocy, to some-- may yet be honored, much later in life when we ought to know better, in the face of the undeniable. . . . . a shining and heartbreaking book" - Thomas Pynchon, "The New York Times
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"A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision." --The New York Times"A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy . . . humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary." --Newsweek"The greatest luxury, as in all of Garcia Marquez s books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality . . . the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century s most evocative writers." --Anne Tyler, Chicago Sun-Times Book Week"Revolutionary in daring to suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of immortality--youthful idiocy, to some--may yet be honored, much later in life when we ought to know better, in the face of the undeniable. . . . A shining and heartbreaking book." --Thomas Pynchon, The New York Times Book Review "

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 Classics
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141023473
• ISBN 13: 9780141023472
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432