Love in the Time of Cholera

Name: Love in the Time of Cholera
Rating: 3.8074817518248176 (548 reviews)
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9780147784483

by Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman

3.8

(548 ratings)

348 pages1985PenguinISBN 9780147784483

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About this book

Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years, on the day of her husband's funeral. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1985
Pages: 348
ISBN: 9780147784483
Language: en

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in otherwise ordinary and realistic situations. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_García_Márquez