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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's fanciful and lush novel is a romantic epic about love in its many guises, the clash of romanticism and rationalism, and the terrible agony of love sickness. At the apex of the novel's love triangle is Fermina Daza, who rejects her young lover Florentino Ariza, and marries the practical doctor Juvenal Urbino. While she lives a respectable and moral married life, Arize's passion for her is undiminished--despite his conquest of 622 other women. After 53 years, Urbino dies, and their love and life together begins again. The novel was adapted into a film in 2007 starring Javier Bardem as the love-smitten Ariza.
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"...Oh boy--does he write well. [This] is a faithful and beautiful piece of work." - Maria Krysan (New York Times Book Review, 4/10/88)
"...Oh boy--does he write well. [This] is a faithful and beautiful piece of work." - Maria Krysan (New York Times Book Review, 4/10/88)
"A wonderful and meandering excursion into love in its many guises. Blessedly, it concedes that age is no barrier to romantic love." - Jo Hinchliffe (New York Times)
"A wonderful and meandering excursion into love in its many guises. Blessedly, it concedes that age is no barrier to romantic love." - Jo Hinchliffe (New York Times)
"The greatest luxury, as in all of Garcia Marquez's books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality...the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century's most evocative writers." - George Walker Thomson (Chicago Sun Times Book Review)
"The greatest luxury, as in all of Garcia Marquez's books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality...the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century's most evocative writers." - George Walker Thomson (Chicago Sun Times Book Review)
"This is one of my favorite novels. It's so dense that no matter how many times I dip into it, I manage to find something startling that I have totally forgotten." - Stephen R. Reimer (Salon, 11/22/99)
"This is one of my favorite novels. It's so dense that no matter how many times I dip into it, I manage to find something startling that I have totally forgotten." - Stephen R. Reimer (Salon, 11/22/99)
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"beautiful book that is a pleasure to read. will leave you thinking for many days .. months .. years to come. Witty and charming as well as very WELL written "
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"GGM is, hands down, one of the greatest literary figures of all time!"
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