Reviews
"This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." -- The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary." -- Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing." -- Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. Garca Mrquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." -- Newsday "A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." -- The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." -- The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary." -- Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing." -- Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. GarcÃa Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." -- Newsday "A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." -- The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." -- The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy . . . humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary." -- Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative...magical...splendid writing." -- Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling.... García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." -- Newsday "A sumptuous book...[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." -- The Washington Post Book World "The greatest luxury, as in all of García Márquez'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." --Anne Tyler, Chicago Sun-Times Book Week, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." --The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary." --Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing." --Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. GarcÃa Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." --Newsday "A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." --The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." --The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power.... Altogether extraordinary." --Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative...magical...splendid writing." --Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling.... García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." --Newsday "A sumptuous book...[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." --The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." --"The New York Times Book Review ""A love story of astonishing power.... Altogether extraordinary." --"Newsweek " "Brilliant, provocative...magical...splendid writing." --"Chicago Tribune " "Beguiling, masterly storytelling.... Garcia Marquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." --"Newsday " "A sumptuous book...[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." --"The Washington Post Book World"
Synopsis
"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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., INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * "A love story of astonishing power" ( Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. 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., INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A love story of astonishing power" ( Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author. 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., In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino 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.
