A CLASSIC STORY OF ENDURING LOVE FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
'One of the greatest love stories I have ever read' Oprah, featured in Oprah's Book Club _______________________________
'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'
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.
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? _______________________________
'The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton
'An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph
'An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women' The Times
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One of this century's most evocative writers * Anne Tyler * A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown. * Melvyn Bragg * No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing * Sunday Telegraph * A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy * Newsweek * An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction * The Times * Few have written so passionately about the power of love * Independent * No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing * Sunday Telegraph * A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy * Newsweek * An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Márquez's best fiction * The Times * A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Márquez have never been better shown. * Melvyn Bragg *
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
