Love in the Time of Cholera

Love can be a disease, a plague that takes over the body and soul, causing the person inflicted to eventually succumb. Marquez brings this metaphor to life as he tells the tale of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, two forlorn lovers who are destined to tragically separate and yearn for one another over the course of a lifetime.  Cleverly, in the backdrop of the novel, readers see cholera spread through an unnamed coastal Caribbean city as indiscriminately and ruthlessly as Florentino’s passion for Fermina.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, captivates readers  with his poignant storylines, desperate characters and beautiful fluid sentences. Powerful and evocative, Marquez will stay with readers long after the completion of his book. Ambitious readers should read the text in its original language, which is Spanish. Either way, however, the beauty of his words is not lost in translation.