Love in the Time of Cholera

In Colombia at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, crazy love was rampant like cholera. At the funeral of Dr. Urbino who died unexpectedly, his wife was extremely sad, but an unexpected guest came: her former lover Florentino appeared and told her that more than half a century later, He is still waiting for her. It all started with an accidental glimpse many years ago. The young operator Florentino fell in love with Fermina at first sight. The two made a private decision for life, but Fermina's father objected. Na left him. After more than fifty years, he finally had the opportunity to declare his unchanging love again...

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Love in the Time of Cholera is García Márquez's first novel after he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. It tells a love epic spanning more than half a century, exhausting all the possibilities of love: loyal, secret, rough, shy, platonic, debauched, fleeting, life and death... Marl Kex once said: "This is my best work, and it is my creation from the bottom of my heart."