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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ ISBN: 1-4000-3468-X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (203 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: love in any language
Comment: many people have tried to define love with words, as did florentino ariza. he wrote, read, ate, slept words. but like so many others, he discovered that love cannot be contained. it flows through our actions, through our lives, sometimes enriching, sometimes destroying. but in the end, it is what it is, in any era, at any age.
and like the characters, gabriel garcia marquez uses little dialog, instead, letting the story tell itself. often, i've read novels where the characters speak so much and so often that it leaves little room for emotion.
fermina daza is a strong woman who would be admired in any society. and like many strong woman, many may mistake her for unfeeling. but as you get to know her through garcia, you realize that she is as lost as anyone when it comes to love. it is only at the end of her journey that she realizes she has already arrived at her destination.
this translation moved me like few love stories have. i admit it did take a few tries for me to become absorbed but once i got started, i couldn't put it down. i only wish i could read it in its original form.
Rating: 5
Summary: "Forever"
Comment: This is a book that simply cannot to be ignored. Lush, sensual and poetic in its prose, Marquez spins a vivid tale about a man's love for a woman that waits fifty years to come to fruition. Beneath the imagery and romance, however, lies Marquez's sharp observations on the nature of relationships, marriage and old age -- all told with Marquez's brand of humor, wisdom and unflinching veracity.
The imagery pops alive in the mind's eye like no film can. In a tropical Caribbean setting, sometime between the close of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the environment becomes just as much a character as Florentino Ariza, and the dramatic story unfolds of his love for Fermina Daza. I'd love to recommend this for mature teens, but to truly savor it, you'll have to have lived a little. In the end, no matter what age, you will be the better for having read this masterpiece!
Rating: 5
Summary: Magical and Real
Comment: In his youth, Florentino Azira was rejected by Fermina Daza at the end of a correspondence-driven affair. While she endures a marriage with a higher-class doctor, Azira continues to be faithful to Fermina, in his whimsically stubborn way that only Garcia Marquez could imagine.
While Marquez's other well-known novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is well-known for its characters who float into the air, or grow pig's tails, this book stands in decided contrast. The unbelievable happens not in the physical realm, but psychological. Here, a man has hundreds of lovers and yet remains loyal to one old, married woman. We don't ask for the psychiatrist's explanation, just like we didn't ask a scientist to explain 100 Years of Solitude. Instead, we believe and want to believe.
The details are lyrically described, different characters wind subplots around the single-minded Azira. The dialogue occurs in pithy lines scattered throughout, almost like inter-titles in old movies. Marquez doesn't move the mouths of his characters, he moves much larger forces. He moves ships, brings plagues, and stretches love over lifespans.
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060929790 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932139 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 0140256369 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Living to Tell the Tale by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, EDITH GROSSMAN ISBN: 1400041341 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ ISBN: 0345310020 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 12 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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