Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca Colombia in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogot&#225; and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper <i>El Espectador </i>and as a foreign correspondent in Rome Paris Barcelona Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories including <i>Eyes of a Blue Dog </i>(1947) <i>Leaf Storm </i>(1955) <i>No One Writes</i><i>to the Colonel </i>(1958) <i>In Evil Hour </i>(1962) <i>Big Mama's Funeral </i>(1962) <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude </i>(1967) <i>Innocent Erendira and Other Stories </i>(1972) <i>The Autumn of the Patriarch </i>(1975) <i>Chronicle of a Death Foretold </i>(1981) <i>Love in the Time of Cholera </i>(1985) <i>The General in His Labyrinth </i>(1989) <i>Strange Pilgrims </i>(1992) <i>Of Love and Other Demons </i>(1994) and<i> Memories of My Melancholy Whores </i>(2005). Many of his books are<i></i>published by Penguin. He was awarded the <i></i>Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.<i></i>|<p>A poignant meditation on the nature of desire and the enduring power of love Gabriel Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez's <i>Love in the Time of Cholera </i>is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>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.<br><br>Gabriel Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca Colombia. He is the author of several novels including <i>Leaf Storm</i> (1955) <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> (1967) <i>The Autumn of the Patriarch</i> (1975) <i>Chronicle of a Death Foretold</i> (1981) and <i>The General in His Labyrinth</i> (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.<br><br>If you enjoyed <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i> you might like Marquez's <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> also available in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>'The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer'<br><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among M&#225;rquez's best fiction'<br><i>The Times</i><br><br>'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' <br>Anne Tyler author of <i>The Accidental Tourist</i></p>|<p>A poignant meditation on the nature of desire and the enduring power of love Gabriel Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez's <i>Love in the Time of Cholera </i>is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>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.<br><br>Gabriel Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez (b. 1928) was born in Aracataca Colombia. He is the author of several novels including <i>Leaf Storm</i> (1955) <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> (1967) <i>The Autumn of the Patriarch</i> (1975) <i>Chronicle of a Death Foretold</i> (1981) and <i>The General in His Labyrinth</i> (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.<br><br>If you enjoyed <i>Love in the Time of Cholera</i> you might like Marquez's <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> also available in Penguin Modern Classics.<br><br>'The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer'<br><i>Daily Telegraph</i><br><br>'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among M&#225;rquez's best fiction'<br><i>The Times</i><br><br>'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' <br>Anne Tyler author of <i>The Accidental Tourist</i></p>
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