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Gabriel garcía márquez love5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Garcia’s writing style leaves the reader with a comprehensive view of the world that he writes about, not only describing what you cannot see, but also what you cannot hear or smell. ![]() The book starts like many do, at the beginning of the end, and then goes back and follows the lives of the two main characters (Fermina Daza and Florentino Arizo) from when they first met. Love in the Time of Cholera is a book about love in its many forms and although it contains many love stories, is not in my opinion a love story on the whole. ![]() But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives? 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. Having sworn his eternal love to her, he lives for the day when he can court her again. During that half century, Florentino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women, but has loved none but Fermina. ‘It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.’įifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Arizo’s impassioned advances and married Dr. ![]()
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