NY: Vintage Books, 2003. Soft cover. Very Good. Soft cover in fine condition with pictorial wraps; no creases. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. * From the book, ""Open 'Love in the Time of Cholera' at any page and be drawn into the steamy backwater of coastal Colombia of nearly a century ago. Stay a while, and find that familiar surroundings in which you read now seem alien when you look up. That is a rare gift."" * Am Oprah Book Club Selection

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Love in the Time of Cholera is an International Bestselling novel by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez. It is considered a modern literary classic, and one of the best novels of the 20th 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 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. (From the Publisher). It is considered a non-traditional love story as "lovers find love in their 'golden years'—in their seventies, when death is all around them" Love in the Time of Cholera was first published in Spanish in 1985, with an English translation released in 1988 by Alfred A. Knopf. An English-language film adaptation was released in 2007. -

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On Nov 14 2007, CH125 said:

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE LOVE STORY. A MUST READ FOR EVERYONE WHO BELIEVES IN LOVE, OR JUST WANTS TO FALL IN LOVE WITH A STORY. THIS IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE BOOK. AFTER THIS BOOK I RECOMMEND ADDITIONAL READING BY SAME WRITER, GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ - 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE.

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Seller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 000831
Title: Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0307389731
ISBN 13: 9780307389732
Publisher: Vintage Books
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 2003
Dewey: 863 G37l 2003
Keywords: Fiction, Colombia - Fiction, Fiction - Man and woman relationship, Colombian - 20th Century
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.

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