Love In A Cold Climate

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: Reprint

Description: 248 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their livesThe most important writer of fiction in any language Bill ClintonAn exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny Sunday TelegraphAn amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women The Times%%%Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 enduring love. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their livesThe most important writer of fiction in any language Bill ClintonAn exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny Sunday TelegraphAn amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women The Times

ISBN: 9780241968567