Written by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez in 1985, this timeless novel is the tale of a mans endless thirst for love.
The book is set in an unnamed port city somewhere in the Caribbean, near the Magdalena River. It utilizes beautiful metaphors that allow the imagination to journey into the Caribbean and paints a beautiful picture of what life was like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Fermina Daza is a beautiful young woman who vows to be wed by 21. She encounters Florentino Ariza at a young age and they exchange love letters with the intention of marrying. The father of Fermina Daza is hell bent on marrying his daughter into success and introduces her to Juvenal Urbino, a physician who saved the town from a cholera epidemic. She eventually wed’s Juvenal Urbino and lives a somewhat loveless, unfulfilled life. In the meantime Florentina Ariza who had saved his virginity for his love Fermina Daza, spends the rest of his life looking for comfort in casual affairs and beds hundreds of young woman before reacquainting with his love later in life.
A masterpiece, this book really does live up to its iconic status.
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