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 A love story of astonishing power.... Altogether extraordinary. --Newsweek  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  About the Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an author, journalist and screenwriter. He finished his degree in Law from the National University of Colombia. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972. Some of Marquez's famous works include the General in his Labyrinth, One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch. Marquez is married to Mercedes Barcha and they have two sons together.