SUMMARY: Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Mrquez's extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature's most remarkable stories of unrequited love. "This shining and heartbreaking novel," Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is one of those few r
Love in the Time of Cholera (Edith Grossman 1988 Translation)
✍ Scribed by Gabriel García Márquez
- Book ID
- 100409456
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Edition
- Penguin Books (2014)
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780241968574
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Paperback, 348 pages
Published 1985
Penguin Books (2014)
TheGreatestBooks.org Top 500 Ever |
Translated by: Edith Grossman (1988)
First published in Spanish as El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985)
'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 García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
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