He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of several novels, including Leaf Storm (1955), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). 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. Haitian Government Respond to Cholera Epidemic and Hurricane Matthew: August 19, October 5, and November 4, 2016. Then, fifty-one years, nine months and four days later, Fermina's husband dies unexpectedly. London, UK: Penguin Re-issue edition, 2014. He can never forget his first and only true love. Instead Fermina marriesdistinguished doctor Juvenal Urbino, while Florentino can only wait silently for her. A poignant meditation on the nature of desire, and the enduring power of love, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics.įlorentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his love tragically rejected.
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