Book Review
Love in the Time of Cholera (by GGM)
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- Love in the Time of Cholera is bold and powerful. Just how many stories do we read about re-declarations of one’s love when the lover has just become a widow? What Gabriel Garcia Marquez has done is transform a taboo into a story about human nature. Love, he tells us, is part of the human condition. People live and die for it, so who are we to judge what lovers are compelled to do?
- Of course, this book wouldn’t have been a masterclass without the magical writing. From the macro-level — the structure of the story, the characters, the themes — to the micro-level — the phrases, sentences, images, tension and so on — it is hard not to sometimes gape at just how perfectly everything is written. Many times, after a sentence that particularly resonated or passage that left me deeply emotional, I would set the book aside and shake my head at just the wonder this book evinced. If I could be one-billionth of the writer GGM is, I would die happy.