The Nobel Prize-winning author and creator of "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel García Márquez, narrates a story of unfulfilled love that lasts longer than any rival in his masterpiece "Love in the Time of Cholera," published for the first time as a Penguin Essential. Fifty-one years, nine months, and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rejected the disappointing advances of the romantic Florentino Ariza and married Dr. Juvenal Urbino. During this half-century, Florentino has fallen in love with many women, but he has loved no one else besides Fermina. Promising his eternal love, he lives for the day he can claim her again. When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes the opportunity to declare his irrevocable love. But can youthful love find new life in the twilight of their lives?

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Pages: 368, Dimensions: 11.2x11.2cm