This is more than a love story, it is a life story. From the first time Florentino Ariza sees Fermina Daza he loves her. He sends her letters and she is in love with him. Then one day, she feels her love is an illusion and leaves him, when she marries a wealthy well-born doctor, Florentino Ariza realizes the only way to have Fermina Daza is to wait until her husband dies. This is what he does, the book takes us through his love affairs while he is waiting, through Fermina Daza’s marriage, the hard beginning to the loving years to her despair at her husband’s death, at which time Florentino Ariza declares his love for her once again.
This is a beautifully written book with lush descriptions and evocative prose, I was transported to another world, where the jungles had raucous parrots and the rivers had alligators sunning themselves. In these rivers were floating corpses, rotting and fetid. Well, that is what happens with Cholera.
At first I felt the story was moving too slowly, after all the book covers over 50 years and I did not see how Mr. Márquez would fit it all in, but the pieces come together and the story leads to its eventual and satisfying conclusion.
If this is the sort of book you enjoy, you would probably like this book, if you prefer thrillers and true crime books with murderously depraved spouses that prefer murder charges to divorce court, you will probably not like this book.
Category: Foreign
# pages: 348
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I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the book. I took it out of the library last year, and I couldn’t get past the first 10 pages. It just seemed to start so slow and I was easily bored. But I’ve heard great things about this book.
–Anna
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Hi, I read this several years ago & loved it. Just recently I bought his “one hundred years of solitude” & will begin reading it soon. Marquez is a wonderful author.
I did enjoy this book, but I don’t think that I loved it. It did seem to go on and on, but his descriptions were fabulous. Now I need to watch the movie.
I really liked this book but I preferred One Hundred Years of Solitude. One of the best books ever written
I gave it 3 stars.Here’s my rating system.1 star – hated it2 stars – didn’t hate it3 stars – liked it4 stars – really liked, would recommend5 stars – loved it will keep it forever
I’ve been considering this book for a while, and I haven’t seen the movie on purpose so I would read the book first but after a read another book by the author I’m kind of worried that I might not like the book.. but it will have to depend on my mood.. I will have to give it a try and then see if I can finish it or not 🙂BTW how many stars would you give it out of 5? just to give me a hint!