There are novels, like journeys, that you never want to end: this is one of them. On an evening of the seventh of July at six o'clock, a 71-year-old woman and a 78-year-old man step onto a platform and begin one of the greatest adventures of modern literature. The man is Florentino Ariza, president of the Caribbean Riverboat Company. The woman is his childhood love, the recently widowed Fermina Daza. She has ear pain. He is bald and lame. Their journey, at an age where they can expect 'nothing more in life,' offers a brilliant promise: the fulfillment of a tumultuous love that lasts half a century. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is one of the most subversive romantic stories of our time. A revelation about love that blooms slowly, offers the promising assurance that you can have what you desire: you may just need to wait. Set on the Colombian coast at the beginning of this century, it is undoubtedly, even more than ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE which earned him the Nobel, the crowning work of Gabriel García Márquez. 'My best,' he says of it. 'The novel that was written from my guts.'

Pages: 422, Dimensions: 13.2x13.2cm