'It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love'
Fifty-one years,nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's 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.
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. But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241968567Number of pages: 368Weight: 264 gDimensions: 200 x 130 x 23 mm
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A giant of South American literature,a master of magical realism and the author of such modern classics as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera,Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian Nobel Prize-winning novelist,short story writer,screenwriter and journalist.
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