by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401242304
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«El amor en los tiempos del cólera» is the romantic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (492 pages, in Spanish).
Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza fall in love as young people in a Caribbean port, but she marries Doctor Juvenal Urbino. Florentino waits for her for more than half a century and, when her husband dies, he declares his love to her again. Irony and lyricism for a chronicle of love and the passage of time.
The novel was originally published in 1985 and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction in 1988.
Recommended for readers of romantic and literary fiction, interested in Latin American classics of magical realism.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
