Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (MARQUEZ 2014)

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

ISBN 10: 0241968569 / ISBN 13: 9780241968567

Published by Penguin, 2014

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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera: Gabriel Garcia ...

Publisher: Penguin

Publication Date: 2014

Binding: paperback

Condition: Good

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Pub Date: 2014-03-06 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books UK Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garca Mrquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera It was inevitable:. the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited loveFifty-one years. nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizas impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century. Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women. but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her. he lives for the day when he can court her again.When Ferminas husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree. Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduri...

From the Publisher:

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