Love in the Time of Cholera

Grabriel García Márquez

LOVE in the

TIME of

CHOLERA

TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH

BY EDITH GROSSMAN

Alfred A. Knopf New York

1988

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

Copyright © 1988 by Gabriel García Márquez

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York.

Originally published in Colombia as El amor en los tiempos del cólera by Editorial Oveja Negra Ltda., Bogotá.

Copyright © 1985 by Gabriel García Márquez.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

García Márquez, Gabriel, [date]

Love in the time of cholera.

Translation of: El amor en los tiempos del colera.

I. Title.

PQ8180.17.A73A813 1988 863 87-40484

ISBN 0-394-56161-9

ISBN 0-394-57108-8 (lim. ed.)

Manufactured in the United States of America

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For information and catalog write to BOMR, Camp Hill, PA 17012.

Contents

CHAPTER ONE ................................................................................................................. 9

CHAPTER TWO .............................................................................................................. 25

CHAPTER THREE .......................................................................................................... 42

CHAPTER FOUR............................................................................................................. 62

CHAPTER FIVE .............................................................................................................. 82

CHAPTER SIX................................................................................................................. 99

A Note About The Author .............................................................................................. 122

A Note On The Type....................................................................................................... 123

About the e-Book ............................................................................................................ 124

For Mercedes, of course

The words I am about to express:

They now have their own crowned goddess.

LEANDRO DÍAZ

Love in the Time

of Cholera