LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA byGabriel García Márquez

Twenty-eight years ago, LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA byGabriel García Márquez was first published in the U.S. by Alfred A. Knopf on this day in 1988.

"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet."
--from LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again. READ an excerpt here: http://knopfdoubleday.com/…/57…/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/