I bought this paperback probably some 3 years before because it was always described by certified bookworms as one of the best novels of all time. With Gabriel Gracia Marquez as the author, I know that it wouldn't go trash as he was a Nobel Prize winner. It quietly stayed on my bookshelf and I chanced upon it last December so I included on my simple small goals for 2014 that I should read it this year.
I brought this inside my backpack on my island escapade and finally, I was done with the last pages this week. It was quite a task to finish it in 3-5 days(my usual average for a novel) because at first I had trouble adjusting with Marquez's style of writing. I am used to Twilight, Christian Gray, James Patterson,Nicholas Spark world of words. And I squeezed Patterson's 11th hour novel(it's a bad habit of mine reading 2 stories at a time).
"A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision."
-The New York Times
"A love story of astonishing power."
-Newsweek
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs- yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty-one years, nine months and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
This is a story of ageless love which for the time that I was reading it, I was made to believe that love knows no boundaries and limits. That love is truly the most powerful being in the world. That it could really mean forever.
Read. Imagine. Love.
