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Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is famous at the first place for his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude for which he received the Nobel Prize. However, this book Love in the Time of Cholera is not less interesting and fascinating. Here strong love and unrestrained passion are interlaced. In this fictional world we see the fates of three people who are to be together for more than fifty years creating a peculiar love triangle that consists of Florentino Ariza who loves boundlessly charming Fermina Daza. Although many years ago the woman preferred another man, Dr. Juvenal Urbin, Ariza cannot do anything with his love. The story is very bright and creative, full of hopes and romance.

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...good condition as the sunken vessels. He said that there were severalcaravelles with their sails still intact, and that the sunken ships were visible even on thebottom, for it seemed as if they had sunk along with their own space and time, so thatthey were still illumined by the same eleven o'clock sun that was shining on Saturday,June 9, when they went down. Choking on the driving force of his imagination, he saidthat the easiest one to distinguish was the galleon San José, for its name could be seen onthe poop in gold letters, but it was also the ship most damaged by English artillery. Hesaid he had seen an octopus inside, more than three centuries old, whose tentaclesemerged through the openings in the cannon and who had grown to such a size in thedining room that one would have to destroy the ship to free him. He said he had seen thebody of the commander, dressed for battle and floating sideways inside the aquarium ofthe forecastle, and that if he had not dived down to the hold...