Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel García Márquez
Buy on Amazon

Love in the Time of Cholera

by
Language
English
Published in
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pages
348
ISBN
9780394571089
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.

Subjects

Original edition details

El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera Originally published in 1985
Original language
Spanish
Original publisher Bruguera, 1985

Other editions (77)