Love in the Time of Cholera Marquez 2014 — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera It was inevitable the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love 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 During that half century Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women but has loved none but Fermina Having sworn his eternal love to her he lives for the day when he can court her again When Fermina s husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives The most important writer of fiction in any language Bill Clinton An exquisite writer wise compassionate and extremely funny Sunday Telegraph An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women The Times As one of the pioneers of magic realism and perhaps the most prominent voice of Latin American literature Gabriel García Márquez has received international recognition for his novels works of non fiction and collections of short stories Those published in translation by Penguin include Autumn of the Patriarch Bon Voyage Mr President Collected Stories Chronicle of a Death Foretold The General in his Labyrinth Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories In the Evil Hour Leaf Storm Living to Tell the Tale Memories of My Melancholy Whores News of a Kidnapping No one Writes to the Colonel Of Love and Other Demons One Hundred Years of Solitude The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor and Strange Pilgrims

A poignant meditation on the nature of desire and the enduring power of love Gabriel García Márquez s Love in the Time of Cholera is translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman in Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza but finds his love tragically rejected Instead Fermina marriesdistinguished doctor Juvenal Urbino while Florentino can only wait silently for her He can never forget his first and only true love Then fifty one years nine months and four days later Fermina s husband dies unexpectedly At last Florentino has another chance to declare his feelings and discover if a passion that has endured for half a century will remain unrequited in a rich fantastical and humane celebration of love in all its many forms Gabriel García Márquez b 1928 was born in Aracataca Colombia He is the author of several novels including Leaf Storm 1955 One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967 The Autumn of the Patriarch 1975 Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981 and The General in His Labyrinth 1989 He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 If you enjoyed Love in the Time of Cholera you might like Marquez s One Hundred Years of Solitude also available in Penguin Modern Classics The nearest thing to sensual pleasure prose can offer Daily Telegraph An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women among Márquez s best fiction The Times The greatest luxury is the eerie entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century s most evocative writers Anne Tyler author of The Accidental Tourist Yayınevi PENGUIN BOOKS Yazar GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ Dil İNGİLİZCE Sayfa Sayısı 423 SAYFA Yıl 2024