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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Some people see an endearing romance in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, and are ready to grant this novel a place on their shelves next to Romeo and Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, the DVD to Titanic, and The Collected Works of Erich Segal. After all, we never get tired of love stories, do we?

But Márquez is setting you up. As the auth…

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