by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza & Janés. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401260148
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«El amor en los tiempos del cólera» is the romantic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (494 pages, in Spanish).
Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza meet as young people and experience a thwarted love: she marries a wealthy doctor and he waits for more than fifty years. When Fermina is widowed, Florentino renews his declaration. The action takes place in a Caribbean port city and the novel addresses fidelity, death and the passage of time.
The novel was originally published in 1985; this edition by Plaza & Janés appeared in 1999. In 1988 it received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction category.
For readers of romantic fiction and Latin American literature, interested in a love story that spans several decades.
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.
