Love in the Time of Cholera

A love story of astonishing power. - Newsweek

The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/05/2007
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.25w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780307389732

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.2
Point Value: 29
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 22765 / Love in the Time of Cholera


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 100

About the Author

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014.