L'amore ai tempi del colera

Name: L'amore ai tempi del colera
Rating: 7.88 (555407 reviews)
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9788804668244

Language: Italian
Published in: 2016
Publisher: Mondadori
Pages: 376
ISBN: 9788804668244

In a Caribbean port city, a young telegraph operator named Florentino Ariza and the beautiful Fermina Daza fall into a secret, passionate love. But their youthful romance is cut short when Fermina, pressured by her father, chooses to marry a wealthy and sophisticated doctor. Devastated, Florentino makes an astonishing vow: to wait for her, no matter how long it takes. For the next fifty-one years, nine months, and four days, he drifts through life and 622 affairs, yet his heart remains singularly devoted to the woman he lost.

This sprawling chronicle of an unwavering love explores the relentless passage of time and the myriad forms that affection can take. While Fermina builds a life of stability and navigates the realities of a long marriage, Florentino's obsession sustains him, blurring the line between fidelity and fanaticism. Set against a backdrop of recurring cholera epidemics, the story questions whether love itself is a kind of illness, a plague of the heart that can endure across a lifetime. It is an exploration of memory, aging, and the proposition that the greatest loves must often contend with death itself.