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Love in the Time of Cholera

By Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez digital book - Fable

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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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3.5
“prose and story telling was really nice. However the causal mentions of assaults and grooming were not great. Understand it was written in a different time but those reasoning significantly reduced my rating of the book.”
“Gabriel Garcia Marquez never disappoints. This was an amusing read from start to finish and I followed Fermina and Florentino's life with similar avid interest. The translator did an amazing job in formulating Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing with his voice and essence, dripping with so much vivid descriptions that I felt some form of nostalgia to a place I've never been before. I hope to read this in Spanish at some point! The only thing that made me stop in my tracks from truly enjoying the read was his relationship with América Vincuña at the end. I can't say for sure if this is just a "product of its time" or if it was meant to scandalize readers but nonetheless, not pleasant. The only good it did story-wise was establish Florentino's character for me.”

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, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.

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