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Love in the Time of Cholera Author: [Colombia] Gabriel García Márquez Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Original title: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Love in the Time of Cholera Author: [Colombia] Gabriel García Márquez Publisher: Nanhai Publishing Company Original title: El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
In Colombia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, crazy love was rampant like cholera. At the funeral of Dr. Urbino, who died unexpectedly, his wife was extremely sad, but she welcomed an unexpected guest: her former lover Florentino showed up and told her that more than half a century later, he was still waiting for her. It all started with a chance glance many years ago. The young operator Florentino fell in love with Fermina at first sight. The two secretly got married, but Fermina's father opposed it. Fermina, who felt the emptiness of love, left him. More than 50 years later, he finally had the opportunity to declare his unchanging love again...
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Love in the Time of Cholera is the first novel completed by García Márquez after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It tells a love epic spanning more than half a century, exhausting all possibilities of love: loyal, secret, rough, shy, platonic, dissolute, fleeting, life-and-death... Márquez once said: "This is my best work, a creation from my heart."
About the Author · · · · · ·
Gabriel García Márquez
Born in 1927 in the coastal town of Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia. Lived with his grandparents in childhood. Moved to Sucre with his parents in 1936. Enrolled in the National University of Bogota in 1947. Entered the newspaper industry in 1948. Started publishing literary works in the 1950s. Moved to Mexico in the early 1960s. One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1967. Won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Published Love in the Time of Cholera in 1985. Died of illness in Mexico on April 17, 2014. García Márquez is considered a benchmark in the literary world of the 20th century and the "undisputed winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature."
His major works include the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", the novellas "The Colonel Whom No One Writes to" and "A Premonition of Murder", the short story collection "Tuesday Siesta", the autobiography "Living to Tell", and the non-fiction work "The Story of a Shipwreck Survivor".