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  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978924
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

Love in the Time of Cholera




The famous novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time

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?

  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978924
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $22.99

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Praise for Love in the Time of Cholera

One of this century's most evocative writers

Anne Tyler

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

Melvyn Bragg