Love in the Time of Cholera

One of this century's most evocative writers * Anne Tyler * A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Mrquez have never been better shown. * Melvyn Bragg * No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Mrquez's writing * Sunday Telegraph * A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy * Newsweek * An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Mrquez's best fiction * The Times * Few have written so passionately about the power of love * Independent * No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Mrquez's writing * Sunday Telegraph * A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy * Newsweek * An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women... among Mrquez's best fiction * The Times * A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Mrquez have never been better shown. * Melvyn Bragg * Few have written so passionately about the power of love * Independent *

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogot, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.