Love In The Time Of Cholera (US)

Love In The Time Of Cholera: Gabriel García Márquez Hardcover – 21 Aug. 1997 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), US.

There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a woman of 71 and a man of 78 ascend a gangplank and begin one of the greatest adventures in modern literature. The man is Florentino Ariza, President of the Carribean River Boat Company; the woman is his childhood sweetheart, the recently widowed Fermina Daza. She has earache. He is bald and lame. Their journey up-river, at an age when they can expect 'nothing more in life', holds out a shimmering promise: the consummation of an amor interruptus spanning half a century. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is one of the most uplifting romances of our times. An epiphany to late-flowering love, it holds out the subversive promise that you can have what you wish for: you may just have to wait. Set on the Colombian coast in the early part of this century, it is, arguably even more so than ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE which won him the Nobel Prize, the crowning work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'My best, ' he says of it. 'The novel that was written from my gut. ' Publication is timed to tie in with the launch of Marquez' new novel, NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING, by Jonathan Cape on 3 July.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 422 pages
• Dimensions 30 x 210 x 130mm | 557g
• Publication date 21 Aug 1997
• Publisher Everyman
• Imprint Everyman's Library
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 0
• ISBN10 1857152352
• ISBN13 9781857152357