Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garca Mrquez Translated by Edith Grossman
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garca Mrquez Translated by Edith Grossman
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Love in the Time of Cholera

Author: Gabriel Garca Mrquez; Translated by Edith Grossman

Narrator: Armando Durn

Unabridged: 15 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/25/2013


Synopsis

From the Nobel Prizewinning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two peoples lives together for more than half a century. 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 affairsyet 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 does so again. With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Gabriel Garca Mrquez traces an exceptional half-century of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guisesjoyful, melancholy, enriching, and ever surprising.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on October 05, 2007

I previously read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and I liked it a lot, and I was intruiged by the title "Love in the Time of Cholera" so I thought I'd read it. Within the first few pages I had the inkling I didn't like it, but sometimes it takes books a little while to get warmed up. Plus, I don't l......more

Goodreads review by Jim on March 09, 2022

[Edited, spoiler added 3/9/22] Can unrequited love last a lifetime? That’s the premise of this book. A 76-year-old man pines for a woman all his life. Now her husband has died. Does he still have a chance? The man and woman were in love as teenagers, but they mostly exchanged secret notes. She was gu......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on November 18, 2015

This was not the book for me. I know a lot of people give it praise and it is considered a classic, but I never got into it. It rambled . . . it was repetitive . . . I got bored. What was supposed to be a story about love seemed to be more about twisted obsession and I never found it endearing. None o......more

Goodreads review by Mohammed on March 20, 2018

!بماذا خرجت من تلك الرحلة؟ لا شئ يا صديقي اه، سوي أنني زرت جزر الكاريبي بواقعية لاتخلو من السحر لأول مرة دون قراصنتها وجوني ديب و اﻷهم، أني تيقنت أن الشيخوخة ومرور الزمن ليس مفزعا لهذا الحد إذا ماكنت تعرف الحب حقا أنها رحلة نصحني بها مديري العزيز 'ستقرأ عن الحب في زمن الشيخوخة، بوصف مشاعر ساحرة كما لم......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on February 17, 2025

De cînd cu opinile medicilor, neurologilor și psihologilor de orientare analitică, toată lumea crede că iubirea durează (cel mult) 3 (trei) ani. Cînd durează 4, e vorba de o psihoză și pacientul trebuie internat într-un azil. Și totuși Florentino Ariza (un individ cam ridicol și cam rigid, dar simpat......more