Présentation de l'éditeur
This love story, translated from the Spanish, tells the story of Florentino Ariza who has loved Fermina Daza for 50 years. When her husband dies, his chance for happiness comes.
Biographie de l'auteur
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the University of Botoga and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper
El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including
Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947),
Leaf Storm (1955),
No One Writes
to the Colonel (1958),
In Evil Hour (1962),
Big Mama's Funeral (1962),
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967),
Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972),
The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975),
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981),
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985),
The General in His Labyrinth (1989),
Strange Pilgrims (1992),
Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books are
published by Penguin. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
