Love in the Time of Cholera

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that
outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera,
published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Fifty-one
years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza
rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances
and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century,
Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but
has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her,
he lives for the day when he can court her again. When Fermina's
husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango
tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love.
But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?