Gabriel García Márquez

El amor en los tiempos del cólera és una novel·la que el premi nobel colombià Gabriel García Márquez publicà el 1985. La novel·la narra la vida de tres personatges a principis del segle XX en una ciutat costanera que, per les descripcions, sembla ser Cartagena d'Índies. Aquesta és una història d'amor amb una prosa …

In Barcelona, an aging Brazilian prostitute trains her dog to weep at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman parlays her gift for seeing the future into a fortunetelling position with a wealthy family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife take in the lonely, apparently dying ex-President of a …

On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl …