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A powerful, poetic and comic long-distance love story set on the Caribbean coast. For fifty years a breath-taking beauty, now old and just widowed, has recoiled in pride and guilt from her secret lover. His desolate obsession has led him into an enigmatic existence in spite of his renown in business. One Pentecost, love found a new tongue with which to speak. Unique Márquez magic of the sadness and funniness of humanity' - The Times
'A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy... Admirers of One Hundred Years of Solitude may find it hard to believe that García Márquez can have written an even better novel. But that's what he's done' - Newsweek
'Consumption and rapture, suicide and undying love, fate, vows, madness, waltzes, poems inscribed on camellia petals with the point of a pin, coups de foudre and crimes passionels: all the palpitating paraphernalia of romanticism is lavishly distributed in Gabriel
García Márquez's extravaganza of a novel' - Sunday Times
An anatomy of love in all its forms...The novel's other great subject, like Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, is time-how memory transfigures and redeems all that has gone before... Mr Garcia Márquez has revealed how the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary... The result is a rich, commodious novel, a novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision' -The New York Times
'A novel in praise of spontaneity, sexual passion, disorder and vitality, a triumph of the uncertain, sprawling confusion of life over the comforting, dull precision of authority, a victory of the indigenous over the imported, old age over death, the popular over the learned' - The Times Literary Supplement
'A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy... Admirers of One Hundred Years of Solitude may find it hard to believe that García Márquez can have written an even better novel. But that's what he's done' - Newsweek
'Consumption and rapture, suicide and undying love, fate, vows, madness, waltzes, poems inscribed on camellia petals with the point of a pin, coups de foudre and crimes passionels: all the palpitating paraphernalia of romanticism is lavishly distributed in Gabriel
García Márquez's extravaganza of a novel' - Sunday Times
An anatomy of love in all its forms...The novel's other great subject, like Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, is time-how memory transfigures and redeems all that has gone before... Mr Garcia Márquez has revealed how the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary... The result is a rich, commodious novel, a novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision' -The New York Times
'A novel in praise of spontaneity, sexual passion, disorder and vitality, a triumph of the uncertain, sprawling confusion of life over the comforting, dull precision of authority, a victory of the indigenous over the imported, old age over death, the popular over the learned' - The Times Literary Supplement