Love in
the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
This engrossing novel explores love as in young romantic love, the
love of the long-time married, love and ageing, unrequited love, love and
anger, love and fear, and love and death. At first I felt embarrassed because I
could not tell if the story was set in Central America or South America but
then I realized settings are irrelevant because different
aspects of love manifest anywhere and everywhere. Also, this amazing work is
about smelliest novel I’ve ever read, with references from aromas to stenches
on about every other page. This starts on in the incredible first line of the
novel: “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of
the fate of unrequited love.” I recommend this novel whole-heartedly. Other themes - rivers, animals, cages, etc. - were so
compelling that I read it even after I came home from work at 9:00 p.m.,
something I am usually too tired to do.
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