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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780140119909 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino 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.
With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Garcia Marquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises — joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever surprising.
Review:
"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
Review:
"A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision." The New York Times
Review:
"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
Review:
"A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy...humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary." Newsweek
Review:
"It is a fully mature novel in scope and perspective, flawlessly translated, as rich in ideas as in humanity." Publishers Weekly
Review:
"In substance and style not as fantastical, as mythologizing, as the previous works, this is a compelling exploration of the myths we make of love." Library Journal
About the Author
Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the University of Bogota 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, and Love and Other Demons.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780140119909
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books
- Author:
- Location:
- New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- American
- Subject:
- Fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Subject:
- Love stories
- Subject:
- Colombia
- Subject:
- Colombia Fiction.
- Copyright:
- c198
- Series:
- Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Series Volume:
- v.2.
- Publication Date:
- 1989
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 348 p.
- Dimensions:
- 8.26x5.50x.73 in. .63 lbs.
