Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.90

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  Paperback
  2008

  $4.69

  Fifty-one years, nine months and four days ago, Florentino's love was rejected by beautiful Fermina. While she became a model wife, poor Florentio pined for her and has done so ever since, never finding love or peace as he yearns for the day he can woo her again. When Fermina's husband is killed falling from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? This edition ties in to Mike Newell's long-awaited film of Love in the Time of Cholera , starring Benjamin Bratt ( Traffic ), which is due for release in January 2008.

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  Hardcover
  1988

  $5.52

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  Paperback
  2007

  $17.95

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $18.49

  There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. On 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.