Literary
Classics
Romance
1997
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Published in Spanish as El amor en los tiempos del cólera
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 yearns for the day he can woo her again.
What it is
A love that builds slowly · funny and sad at once
What happens in it
Slow-burn romance
How it feels
Reading sheet
How it's told
- Structure
- Jumps in time
- Who tells it
- A narrator who knows it all
- Style
- Literary
Before you pick it up
Is it for you?
It's for you if…
- you don't mind a love story that takes its time
- you like a book that stays with you for days
- you like dry, sideways humour
Maybe not if…
- you prefer a story told in order
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