Product Details
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (6 Sep 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141189207
ISBN-13: 978-0141189208
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.4 x 19.8 cm

Book Description
Publication Date: 6 Sep 2007 | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. No woman can replace her in his heart. But now her husband is dead. Finally - after fifty-one years, nine months and four days - Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

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Review
No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing (Sunday Telegraph )

A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy (Newsweek )

An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction (The Times )

One of this century's most evocative writers (Anne Tyler )

A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown. (Melvyn Bragg )

Few have written so passionately about the power of love (Independent ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
 
About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez (1928-) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He is the author of several novels, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.