LiteratureBook · 1985
Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
Florentino Ariza waits a lifetime for Fermina Daza, who marries a doctor instead, and he fills the interval with a great many other women while insisting he has stayed faithful. Garcia Marquez published it in 1985 with Editorial Oveja Negra, and the book is as interested in ageing and illness as it is in romance.
Why you should read this
Garcia Marquez's novel of love that persists across more than fifty years, written in a warmer, more realist register than the fabulism of his early work. It suits readers who want a long, patient love story rather than one compressed into a short time frame, and it assumes some tolerance for melodrama.
- Field
- Literature
- Form
- Fiction
- Published
- 1985
- Themes
- Latin American LiteratureLiterature
