Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.

Publisher Annotation: A commemorative edition of Love in the Time of Cholera, a great classic by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and an essential novel of contemporary literature. After the spectacular commemorative edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chilean artist Luisa Rivera pays homage to Garcia Marquez with a series of unpublished illustrations that recreate the author's extraordinary universe. "It was inevitable: the smell of bitter almonds always...

Florentino is a youthful romantic who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love--a love which Fermina's father absolutely forbids. Florentino decides to wait, and after five decades, he finally gets a second chance to win Fermina's heart.