Love in the Time of Cholera Introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare

From the Nobel Prize-winning author ofOne Hundred Years of Solitudecomes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, Garcia Marquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings. Now available for the first time in the Contemporary Classics series!

García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928.  He attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter for the Colombian newspaper <b>El Espectador</b>.  He later served as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York.  Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is the author of several novels and collections, including <b>No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories</b>, <b>The Autumn of the Patriarch</b>, <b>Innocent Erendira and Other Stories</b>, <b>Chronicle of a Death Foretold</b>, <b>The General in His Labyrinth</b>, <b>Strange Pilgrims</b>, and <b>Love and Other Demons</b>.