Love in the time of cholera
/ Gabriel Garcia Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
- 348 pages
Originally published in Spanish in 1985.
This is a novel about the attempts of an old man and woman to rekindle their childhood love affair, set on the Columbian coast. 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.