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    In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

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    In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

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    Translated from the Spanish by

    Edith Grossman

    Vintage Inter national

    vintage books
    a division of random house, inc.
    new york
    first vintage international edition, october 2003
    Copyright © 1988 by Gabriel García Márquez
    All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
    Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by
    Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and
    simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
    Toronto. Originally published in Colombia as El amor en los
    tiempos del cólera by Editorial Oveja Negra Ltda., Bogotá. Copyright ©
    1985 by Gabriel García Márquez. Subsequently published in hardcover
    in English in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of
    Random House, Inc., New York, in 1988.

    Vintage is a registered trademark and Vintage International and


    colophon are trademarks of Random House, Inc.

    The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:


    García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928–.
    Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from
    the Spanish by Edith Grossman.—1st American edition.
    [Amor en los tiempos del cólera. English]
    p. cm.
    1. Colombia—Fiction.
    I. Title
    PQ8180.17.A73 A813 1988
    863—dc19 87-040484

    Book design by Dorothy Schmiderer Baker

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    Printed in the United States of America


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