El amor en los tiempos del colera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
El amor en los tiempos del colera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Author: Gabriel García Márquez, John D. Preston PsyD

Narrator: Hector Almenara

Unabridged: 15 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/10/2015


Synopsis

De j├│venes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un m├®dico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino est├í anonadado, pero es un rom├íntico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 peque├▒os romances, su coraz├│n todav├¡a pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intenci├│n. A los cincuenta a├▒os, nueve meses, y cuatro d├¡as de haberle profesado amor a Fermina, lo har├í una vez m├ís.

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American boom. Among his many books are The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

About John D. Preston PsyD

John D. Preston, PsyD, ABPP, is a professor emeritus at Alliant International University in Sacramento, California, and has also served on the faculty of the University of California–Davis School of Medicine and the Professional School of Psychology, San Francisco. He has authored twenty books in the areas of psychotherapy, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology, and coauthored Clinical Psychopharmacology Made Ridiculously Simple and Handbook for Clinical Psychopharmacology for Therapists. Preston is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and has lectured internationally.


Reviews

I previously read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and I liked it a lot, and I was intruiged by the title "Love in the Time of Cholera" so I thought I'd read it. Within the first few pages I had the inkling I didn't like it, but sometimes it takes books a little while to get warmed up. Plus, I don't l......more

Goodreads review by هدى

الرواية التي حارب فيها ماركيز الزمن *المراجعة بها حرق للأحداث* ‏ الكوليرا داء والحب داء كلاهما يغير حياة المرء كلاهما يعلن حربا شرسة ووحشية‏ كلاهما قاس وفتاك ‏ وكلاهما يستهلك صاحبه تقول والدة فلورينتو في لحظة تأمل ‏” ..الحب شبيه بالكوليرا ..“ ‏ الحرب والكوليرا والحب كلهم يطهرون المرء بطريقته يعيدون تشكيل من يصا......more

Goodreads review by Jim

[Edited, spoiler added 3/9/22] Can unrequited love last a lifetime? That’s the premise of this book. A 76-year-old man pines for a woman all his life. Now her husband has died. Does he still have a chance? The man and woman were in love as teenagers, but they mostly exchanged secret notes. She was gu......more


Quotes

“Un libro brillante y desgarrador.” New York Times Book Review

“Una novela rica y expansiva cuyo poder narrativo sólo compite con la generosidad de su vision.” New York Times

“Una historia de amor de increíble fuerza.” Newsweek

“Una gran historia humana, despreocupada del tiempo, contada por uno de los más evocadores escritores de este siglo.” Chicago Sun-Times Book Week