Love in the Time of Cholera - Softcover

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0307387143 ISBN 13: 9780307387141

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2007

Synopsis

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years, on the day of her husband's funeral. Reissue. (A New Line/Stone Village Pictures film, directed by Mike Newell, releasing Fall 2007, starring Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, John Leguizamo, Hector Elizondo, & Fernanda Montenegro) (General Fiction)

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Review:

One of this century's most evocative writers (Anne Tyler)

A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown. (Melvyn Bragg)

About the Author:

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is the author of several novels and collections, including No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, Love and Other Demons, and most recently, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, as well as the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307387143
• ISBN 13: 9780307387141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348