Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead.
During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.
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Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead.
During that half-century, Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina.
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Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time'It was inevitable- the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.'Fifty-one years have passed since Fermina rebuffed Florentino and married Juvenal Urbino instead. Swearing his love to her, he lives for the day when he can court 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?Love in the Time of Cholera is re-issued on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
Critic Reviews
“One of this century's most evocative writers”
Anne Tyler
A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown. Melvyn Bragg
No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing Sunday Telegraph
A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy Newsweek
An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction The Times
Few have written so passionately about the power of love Independent
No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing Sunday Telegraph
A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy Newsweek
An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction The Times
A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown. Melvyn Bragg
Few have written so passionately about the power of love Independent
About the Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador 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 Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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