Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez - ISBN: 9780241978924
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A lifetime of love awaits, even amidst death and decay.

Love in the Time of Cholera

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    368 pages

  • Release Date

    1 October 2016

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Summary

The famous novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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?

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241978924
ISBN-10:0241978920
Author:Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:1 October 2016
Weight:204g
Dimensions:182mm x 111mm x 24mm
Series:Penguin Essentials
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Critics Review

One of this century’s most evocative writers

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 *

About The Author

Gabriel García Márquez

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). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.

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