Love in the Time of Cholera
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
First published AD 1985, written in Spanish
Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel written in Spanish by Colombian Nobel Prize–winning author Gabriel García Márquez and published in 1985. Edith Grossman's English translation was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1988.
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Where it is set
- The unnamed port city
Fictional, inspired by Cartagena
While the city remains unnamed throughout the novel, descriptions and names of places suggest it is based on an amalgam of Cartagena and the nearby city of Barranquilla. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
- Magdalena River
Colombia
The story occurs mainly in an unnamed port city somewhere near the Caribbean Sea and the Magdalena River in Colombia. Source: Wikipedia, reviewed
The author’s life
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On these lists
- Bokklubben World Library
- BBC The Big Read, number 97