Love In The Time Of Cholera
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In a unnamed Caribbean port city frozen between tradition and modernity, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera chronicles one of literature's most extraordinary love stories — the fifty-one-year, nine-month, and four-day obsession of Florentino Ariza for the beautiful Fermina Daza, a passion that survives marriage, old age, and the shadow of death itself. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, this 1988 Alfred A. Knopf edition presents Márquez's sweeping narrative with all its lush, sensory detail intact, tracing the intertwined fates of Fermina, her distinguished husband Dr. Juvenal Urbino, and the relentlessly devoted Florentino across the full arc of their lives. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Love in the Time of Cholera illustrates Márquez's singular genius for blending the mythic with the intimate — using cholera as a potent metaphor for the fever, delirium, and despair of romantic love. The novel argues, with both tenderness and irony, that passion is not the exclusive province of youth but an enduring, even revolutionary, human force. Rooted in the magical realist tradition yet achingly grounded in emotional truth, it stands as a profound meditation on time, mortality, and the audacity of the human heart — leaving the reader to wonder whether such devotion is the purest form of love or its most elegant madness.
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Alfred A. Knopf
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a unnamed Caribbean port city frozen between tradition and modernity, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera chronicles one of literature's most extraordinary love stories — the fifty-one-year, nine-month, and four-day obsession of Florentino Ariza for the beautiful Fermina Daza, a passion that survives marriage, old age, and the shadow of death itself. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman, this 1988 Alfred A. Knopf edition presents Márquez's sweeping narrative with all its lush, sensory detail intact, tracing the intertwined fates of Fermina, her distinguished husband Dr. Juvenal Urbino, and the relentlessly devoted Florentino across the full arc of their lives. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, Love in the Time of Cholera illustrates Márquez's singular genius for blending the mythic with the intimate — using cholera as a potent metaphor for the fever, delirium, and despair of romantic love. The novel argues, with both tenderness and irony, that passion is not the exclusive province of youth but an enduring, even revolutionary, human force. Rooted in the magical realist tradition yet achingly grounded in emotional truth, it stands as a profound meditation on time, mortality, and the audacity of the human heart — leaving the reader to wonder whether such devotion is the purest form of love or its most elegant madness.