TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
TI  - Love in the time of cholera
SN  - 9781857152357
U1  - Fiction MAR-G 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - Everyman's Library
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Colombian fiction
KW  - First loves
KW  - Courtship
KW  - Authors, Colombian
N1  - There are novels, like journeys, which you never want to end: this is one of them. One-seventh of July at six in the afternoon, a woman of 71 and a man of 78 ascend a gangplank and begin one of the greatest adventures in modern literature. The man is Florentino Ariza, President of the Caribbean River Boat Company; the woman is his childhood sweetheart, the recently widowed Fermina Daza. She has an earache. He is bald and lame. Their journey upriver, at an age when they can expect 'nothing more in life, holds out a shimmering promise: the consummation of an armour interruptus spanning half a century. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is one of the most uplifting romances of our times. An epiphany to late-flowering love, it holds out the subversive promise that you can have what you wish for: you may just have to wait. Set on the Colombian coast in the early part of this century, it is, arguably even more so than ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE which won him the Nobel Prize, the crowning work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 'My best, ' he says of it. 'The novel that was written from my gut
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