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Love in the Time of Cholera
  • Published: 24 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968574
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368

Love in the Time of Cholera

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1 Oct 2016
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24 Apr 2014
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Márquez Day: A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first time

'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.'

Fifty-one years have passed since Fermina rebuffed Florentino and married Juvenal Urbino instead. Swearing his love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's husband is killed, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

Love in the Time of Cholera is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.
  • Published: 24 April 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241968574
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
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About the author

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He lives in Mexico City. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on 6 March 1927 in Aractaca, Colombia, and died on 17 April 2014 in Mexico City, aged 87. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for a body of work that includes novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories. His most famous works include Leaf Storm (1955), In Evil Hour (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Autumn of the Patriarch(1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), News of a Kidnapping (1996), Living to Tell the Tale (2002) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2004).
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The Scandal of the Century
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Praise for Love in the Time of Cholera

A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown.

Melvyn Bragg

A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown.

Melvyn Bragg

A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy

Newsweek

A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy

Newsweek

An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction

The Times

An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction

The Times

Few have written so passionately about the power of love

Independent

Few have written so passionately about the power of love

Independent

No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing

Sunday Telegraph

No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing

Sunday Telegraph

One of this century's most evocative writers

Anne Tyler