Opis
Pub Date: 2014-03-06 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books UK Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garca Mrquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera It was inevitable:. the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited loveFifty-one years. nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizas impassioned advances and married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead. During that half-century. Flornetino 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 Ferminas husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree. Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduri…
