Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel follows Florentino Ariza, who falls in love as a young man with Fermina Daza, only to lose her to a respectable doctor. Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days, through countless affairs, for the doctor’s death and a second chance. Set on the Caribbean coast, the book is a rich, ironic meditation on love, aging, and constancy.