A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez\'s Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics. - Anne Tyler , author of The Accidental Tourist. the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century\'s most evocative writers. is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality ... - The Times The greatest luxury ... among Marquez\'s best fiction. -Daily Telegraph An amazing celebration of the many kinds of Love between men and women...
The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer.
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.
Then, fifty-one years, nine months and four days later, Fermina\'s husband dies unexpectedly.
He can never forget his first and only true love.
Instead Fermina marries distinguished doctor Juvenal Urbino, while Florentino can only wait silently for her.
Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his Love tragically rejected.
A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel Garcia Marquez\'s Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics
