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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Fine/Fine. Publisher's cloth boards with publisher's lace-patterned dust jacket and matching slipcase. First edition in English (translated by Edith Grossman). One of 350 copies signed and numbered by Gabriel García Márquez. A Fine copy in like dust jacket and slipcase. García Márquez's iconic novel of love, passion, and death is considered his best alongside One Hundred Years of Solitude. The novel was García Márquez's first published after he won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts" (Nobel Foundation). It was adapted for the screen in 2007 starring Javier Bardem, Giovanna Mezzogiornio, and Benjamin Bratt, and featuring original songs by Shakira. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

About Love in the Time of Cholera

A novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, often considered one of his most important works, exploring themes of love over time.