Love in the Time of Cholera

Name: Love in the Time of Cholera
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9780307389732

Gabriel García Márquez • 1985

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Ugly Crying

love obsession Colombia aging

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Our Take

Florentino Ariza waits fifty-one years for Fermina Daza to be free. García Márquez renders obsession so close to love that the distance between them disappears. The ending on the boat, sailing nowhere, is the happiest ending that is also a form of captivity.

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► Dictatorship and Disappearance — Latin American Political Terror ► Latin American Political Fiction — The State That Disappears People

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