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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140281649
ISBN-13: 9780140281644
Feb 1999
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
348 pages
Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
Language: English |
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Synopsis
A novel about love, time, and an unusual triangular love affair. For 53 years, Florentino Ariza waits patiently for Fermina Daza, the woman who once loved him. While he waits, he becomes astonishingly successful with other women (he has 622 liaisons). She marries another man and lives a life of intense respectability. Finally, she is widowed, and their lives begin again., Gabriel Garcia Marquez's fanciful and lush novel is a romantic epic about love in its many guises, the clash of romanticism and rationalism, and the terrible agony of love sickness. At the apex of the novel's love triangle is Fermina Daza, who rejects her young lover Florentino Ariza, and marries the practical doctor Juvenal Urbino. While she lives a respectable and moral married life, Arize's passion for her is undiminished--despite his conquest of 622 other women. After 53 years, Urbino dies, and their love and life together begins again. The novel was adapted into a film in 2007 starring Javier Bardem as the love-smitten Ariza.
| Details | | Series: | Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century |
| Size | | Length: | 348 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 15.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love."
Industry Reviews
"A wonderful and meandering excursion into love in its many guises. Blessedly, it concedes that age is no barrier to romantic love."
New York Times - Edna O'Brien
"It's spellbinding--a luminous novel by a master of storytelling."
Joseph Heller
"The greatest luxury, as in all of Garcia Marquez'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."
Chicago Sun Times Book Review - Anne Tyler
"...Oh boy--does he write well. [This] is a faithful and beautiful piece of work."
New York Times Book Review - Thomas Pynchon (04/10/1988)
"This is one of my favorite novels. It's so dense that no matter how many times I dip into it, I manage to find something startling that I have totally forgotten."
Chabon
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