by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140173451
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«Love in the Time of Cholera» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Penguin in paperback (368 pages, in English).
Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza love each other as young people, but she rejects him and marries Doctor Juvenal Urbino. Florentino keeps that love for more than fifty years and, after the husband's death, woos her again. The novel addresses obsession, old age and desire, with cholera as a metaphor for love and a Caribbean backdrop.
The work was originally published in Spanish in 1985 under the title «El amor en los tiempos del cólera» and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 1988.
Intended for a general audience, especially readers of literary fiction and romance.
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.
