by Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423113601
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«Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera» is the romantic novel by Gabriel García Márquez published by dtv in paperback (503 pages, in German).
After a brief youthful romance, Florentino Ariza waits for Fermina Daza for over fifty years while she builds a family with Doctor Juvenal Urbino. The novel portrays a love that persists in silence and reflects on desire, fidelity, and the passage of time, with cholera and a Caribbean landscape in the background.
Novel originally published in 1985 as «El amor en los tiempos del cólera», translated into German by Dagmar Ploetz. This dtv edition is the eighth, from 1991.
For German-speaking readers who want to read in their language the celebrated love story by Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
