num_pages: 348
description: Fifty-one years, nine months and four days ago, Florentino's adoring love was rejected by the beautiful Fermina. While she became the model wife to a wealthy doctor, poor Florentino pined for her, and has done so ever since, never finding love or peace as he yearn for the day he can woo her again. When Fermina's husband is killed falling 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: Lorenzo Daza, Hildebranda Sánchez, Fermina Daza, Aunt Escolástica, Leona Cassiani, Florentino Ariza, Juvenal Urbino, América Vicuna, Trànsito Ariza
genres: Romance, Literature, Literary Fiction, Magical Realism, Spanish Literature, Novels, Historical, Fiction, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 490979
places: Cartagena, Colombia
awards: name: Audie Award, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin