Love in The Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

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Canonical Title

Love in The Time of Cholera

Original publication date

1985

1988 (English: Grossman)

Important places

Cartagena, Colombia (assumed)

People/Characters

Jeremiah de Saint-Amour

Awards and honors

Oprah's Book Club selection (2007)

Waterstones Books of the Century (1997, No 43)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Fiction, 1988)

BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 97)

New York Times Best Books of the Year (1988)

New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1988)

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First words

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

Last words

Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights.
'Forever,' he said.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0307389731, Paperback)

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

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