num_pages: 348
description: 'IT WAS INEVITABLE: THE SCENT OF BITTER ALMONDS ALWAYS REMINDED HIM OF THE FATE OF UNREQUITED LOVE'Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again.When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree, Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?
language: English
title: Love in the Time of Cholera
titlecomplete: Love in the Time of Cholera
characters: Trànsito Ariza, Juvenal Urbino, América Vicuna, Leona Cassiani, Lorenzo Daza, Aunt Escolástica, Hildebranda Sánchez, Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 490948
places: Colombia, Cartagena
awards: name: Audie Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books