Love in the Time of Cholera Review ''This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told.'' --The New York Times Book Review ''Brilliant, provocative . . . magical . . . splendid writing.'' --Chicago Tribune  ''Beguiling, masterly storytelling . . . . García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile.'' --Newsday  ''A sumptuous book . . . [with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age.'' --The Washington Post Book World''A rich, commodious novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision.'' --New York Times ''A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy . . . humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching, and altogether extraordinary.'' --Newsweek ''It's spellbinding -- a luminous novel by a master of storytelling.'' --Joseph Heller, New York Times bestselling author of Something Happened ''The greatest luxury, as in all of García Márquez's books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality . . . the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century's most evocative writers.'' --Chicago Sun-Times Book Week ''Oh boy -- does he write well. He writes with impassioned control, out of a maniacal serenity: the Garcimarquesian voice we have come to recognize from the other fiction has matured, found and developed new resources, been brought to a level where it can at once be classical and familiar, opalescent and pure, able to praise and curse, laugh and cry, fabulate and sing, and when called upon, take off and soar . . . There is nothing I have read quite like this . . . [A] shining and heartbreaking book.'' --Thomas Pynchon, National Book Award-winning author ''Thoroughly engrossing on the highest artistic level. It is easily his best work since One Hundred Years of Solitude . . . His vision is exalting.'' --Cleveland Plain Dealer ''A fully mature novel in scope and perspective . . . as rich in ideas as in humanity.'' --Publishers Weekly ''A compelling exploration of the myths we make of love. Highly recommended.'' --Library Journal ''This is a beautiful story, beautifully told, and it should not be missed by any reader of literary fiction.'' --Booklist (starred review) ''A spacious mirror image of the novel that made him famous . . . The constant, throbbing fascination here is the shock of recognition.'' --Time ''They are interesting characters whose sometimes bizarre proceedings interact with the peculiarities of the society they inhabit to create a wonderfully vivid and convincing world . . . What more can be asked of a novelist?'' --Atlantic  About the Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez (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 of course the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.