Love in the Time of Cholera (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141189207 ISBN 13: 9780141189208

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez''s 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, Fermina''s 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 García Márquez (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 Marquez''s 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 Márquez''s 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 century''s most evocative writers''
Anne Tyler, author of The Accidental Tourist

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"A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy . . . humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary."
--Newsweek

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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 García Márquez’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

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141189207
• ISBN 13: 9780141189208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432