January 2014 Love in the Time of Cholera

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

From Amazon:
"In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again."

"Gabriel García Márquez

Novelist

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. Wikipedia

Born: March 6, 1927 (age 86), Aracataca, Colombia

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Rómulo Gallegos Prize, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service, New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year, Ariel Award for Best Original Story, Ariel Award for Best Screenplay for Cinema

Education: National University of Colombia, University of Cartagena

Movies: Love in the Time of Cholera, No One Writes to the Colonel,Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Eréndira, Miracle in Rome, Oedipus Mayor, Of Love and Other Demons, The Widow of Montiel, Juego peligroso, Memoria de mis putas tristes, La mujer que llegaba a las seis,Farewell to the Ark, Time to Die, Eyes of a Blue Dog, Mary My Dearest,The Invisible Children, Lecciones para un beso, Ma armastan sind, In Evil Hour, Letters from the Park, The year of the plague, The Blue Lobster,Presage, Far Apart, My Macondo, Bloody Morning, Fable of the Beautiful Pigeon Fancier, Lola de mi vida, The Golden Cockerel, Nativ Damech Basheleg, There Are No Thieves in This Village, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, 4 contra el crimen, ZA 05. Lo viejo y lo nuevo, Only Death Is Bound to Come, Dead Man's Coughing, Duelo

Siblings: Jaime Garcia Marquez"

When I was in Cuba, I learned that he and Fidel Castro are friends.