Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As the title may suggest, this is a novel about love set in ... well, the time of cholera actually. However, to think of it as nothing more than a simple love story would not do justice to a book that spans a lifetime and paints a colourful picture of an emerging Caribbean country. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Columbian author and winner of the Nobel prize for literature. He was originally a journalist and continues to write non-fiction reports as well as the novels for which he is better known. I was drawn to this book after recently reading another novel by the same author – “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, which is perhaps his most famous. ...