Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino's love was rejected by beautiful Fermina. While she became a model wife, poor Florentio pined for her, never finding love or peace as he yearns for the day he can woo her again. When Fermina's husband is killed, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?
'A delightThe interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Marquez have never been better shown.' Melvyn Bragg 'He has achieved the ultimate purpose of an artist, which is to be able to transform the most significant details of reality into something magical' Shakira 'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available in paperback from Penguin from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non fiction and collections of short stories, 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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780141033723 |
| ISBN 10 | 014103372X |
| Title | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Author | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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