Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights, the unprepossessing and saturnine Florentino Ariza, one of the three central characters of this incomparable novel, waits to possess Fermina Daza, the young woman who once promised him her love and then, in a moment of blinding but ambiguous insight, refused him. To while away the long years of his vigil, he enters into six hundred and twenty-two liaisons and "countless fleeting adventures." She, for her part, marries one of the most distinguished men of her humid, decaying subtropical city and lives a life ruthless in its sanctity and honor. Love in the Time of Cholera chronicles this relationship with an imaginative energy that has only a handful of precedents in the literatures of the world, and with a humane disenchantment astonishing in its delicacy, generosity, and wisdom. It offers for our delight and instruction one of the great hymns to the mysterious ways in which the human spirit transforms, and is transformed by the tragedies and joys of carnal love.
Everyman's Library, Hardcover, 1st Edition, Later Printing, 1997
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