Love in the Time of Cholera

Florentino Ariza waits more than half a century for Fermina Daza, and Gabriel García Márquez treats that persistence as neither noble nor absurd but simply human. Love in the Time of Cholera unfolds on exactly that patience. Set in a Caribbean port town across the turn of the twentieth century, the novel follows a marriage, a long parallel life of waiting, and a society changing around both. The prose carries the heat, decay and sensuality of the setting, and the book examines love in old age as closely as love in youth. Why it endures: • A love story spanning more than fifty years of two lives • Writing from a Nobel laureate of Latin American literature • A richly rendered Caribbean setting at the turn of the century • Reflection on ageing, devotion and the many forms love takes Readers of literary classics and world fiction will want this Penguin Publications edition, stocked at Boipoka.