Love in the Time of Cholera

Synopsis

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.