by Gabriel García Márquez · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592451
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«El amor en los tiempos del cólera» is the romantic novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by DEBOLSILLO in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, whose thwarted love lasts for more than sixty years in a Caribbean port town. García Márquez combines the devices of the classic serial with an exuberant prose, full of tropical smells, colors and flavors, leading to a happy ending that moves from melodrama to myth and legend.
Edition from the Contemporánea collection, with the mention «Premio Nobel de Literatura» on the cover. The author (1927-2014), leading exponent of magical realism, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
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.
