– This was the first book I read by Gabriel García Márquez, and I have now read it over and over again, enjoying it just as much every time! At its simplest, this book tells the story of a young man, Florentino Ariza, who falls spectacularly in love with a young woman, named Fermina Daza, and when he is rejected by her proceeds to spend the rest of his life pining and obsessing over her, never really moving on at all. Fermina Daza then goes on to marry another man and it is only with the death of her husband in old age that Florentino Ariza finally gets the second chance he waited decades for. The title of the book comes from the regular outbreaks and the constant background threat of cholera in the city, but it also becomes apparent that the author views the illness as a metaphor for love! This is a classic, beautiful and heart warming story, I cannot recommend it enough! The writing is breath taking, the characters fascinating and the plot very engaging! A must read book!
Love in the Time of Cholera
«A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy»
Newsweek
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780241968567
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy»
Newsweek
«An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction»
The Times
«A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown.»
Melvyn Bragg
«Few have written so passionately about the power of love»
Independent
«No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing»
Sunday Telegraph
«One of this century's most evocative writers»
Anne Tyler