Love in the Time of Cholera (Paperback)
By Gabriel García Márquez, illustrated by Luisa Rivera

A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez’s most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author’s son, Gonzalo García Barcha.

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.

Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. He died in 2014.

“A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy…humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary.” – Newsweek

“A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision.” – The New York Times

“Revolutionary in daring to suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of immortality – youthful idiocy, to some – may yet be honored, much later in life when we ought to know better, in the face of the undeniable…. A shining and heartbreaking book.” – Thomas Pynchon, The New York Times Book Review

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