Love in the Time of Cholera
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Gabriel García Márquez
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
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Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Pages
368
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2014-10-15
ISBN
1101911115 9781101911112
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"Bad book! Too many characters that so cared nothing about! The suicide in the beginning of the book isn't even a character really. The sexually exploits of the main character are gross, especially when he is an old man at the end and he is having sex with his ward!"
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Cheri Halla
"Right now I’m between Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Page’s Pageboy! How about you??"
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