ISBN: 9780140123890    Publisher: Penguin Year of publishing: 1998     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 352        Language: English

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 .
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an author, journalist and screenwriter. He finished his degree in Law from the National University of Colombia. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972. Some of Marquez's famous works include the General in his Labyrinth, One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch. Marquez is married to Mercedes Barcha and they have two sons together.
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