Love in the Time of Cholera

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Love in the Time of Cholera is a celebrated novel by Gabriel García Márquez that explores enduring, obsessive love over decades in a Caribbean port city.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
adaptationType feature film
author Gabriel García Márquez
awardedToAuthor Nobel Prize in Literature (Gabriel García Márquez, 1982)
containsCharacterRelationship love triangle
countryOfOrigin Colombia
coverArtist notable various editions
criticalReception highly acclaimed
EnglishPublicationDate 1988
EnglishTranslator Edith Grossman
filmAdaptationDirector Mike Newell
filmAdaptationReleaseYear 2007
genre literary fiction
magic realism
romantic novel
hasAdaptation Love in the Time of Cholera (film)
hasMedium audiobook
e-book
print
hasMotif cholera epidemics
letters
river journeys
hasTranslation English
includedInLists modern literary classics
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement Latin American Boom
mainCharacter Fermina Daza
Florentino Ariza
Juvenal Urbino
narrativePerspective third-person narration
notableFor depiction of Caribbean society
portrayal of lifelong, unrequited love
originalLanguage Spanish
originalTitle El amor en los tiempos del cólera
pageCount approximately 348
placeOfPublication Colombia
publicationDate 1985
publisher Editorial Oveja Negra
setting Caribbean port city
early 20th century
late 19th century
theme aging
disease
enduring love
marriage
memory
obsessive love
social class
time

Referenced by (6)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Love in the Time of Cholera ("Love in the Time of Cholera (film)")
hasAdaptation
Gabriel García Márquez
notableWork
Love in the Time of Cholera ("El amor en los tiempos del cólera")
originalTitle
Gabo
refersToAuthorOf
Living to Tell the Tale
relatedWork
Mercedes Barcha ("El amor en los tiempos del cólera")
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