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Love in the Time of Cholera

Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare

By Gabriel García Márquez

By Gabriel García Márquez

By Gabriel García Márquez
Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez
Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare
Translated by Edith Grossman

By Gabriel García Márquez

By Gabriel García Márquez

By Gabriel García Márquez

By Gabriel García Márquez

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Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.95

Oct 05, 2007 | ISBN 9780307389732

Hardcover $26.00

Sep 16, 1997 | ISBN 9780375400698

Hardcover $30.00

Mar 12, 1988 | ISBN 9780394561615

Ebook $9.99

Oct 15, 2014 | ISBN 9781101911112

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    About Love in the Time of Cholera

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A love story of astonishing power” (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author

    In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina 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.

    About Love in the Time of Cholera

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people’s lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, García Márquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings. Now available for the first time in the Contemporary Classics series!

    About Love in the Time of Cholera

    Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude.

    About Love in the Time of Cholera

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A love story of astonishing power” (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author

    In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina 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.

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    About Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    About Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    About Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    About Gabriel García Márquez

    Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died… More about Gabriel García Márquez

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 05, 2007 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307389732

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Sep 16, 1997 | 456 Pages | 5 x 8 | ISBN 9780375400698

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Knopf
    Mar 12, 1988 | 368 Pages | 6-1/4 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780394561615

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 15, 2014 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781101911112
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    Praise

    “This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary.” —Newsweek
     
    “Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing.” —Chicago Tribune
     
    “Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile.” —Newsday
      
    “A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age.” —The Washington Post Book World

    Awards

    Nobel Prize WINNER 1982

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