Love in the Time of Cholera is one of the many fantastic novels I've been reading; I finished it a day or two ago but didn't have the time to write a review. Reviewing a book like Love in the Time of Cholera is more daunting a task than reading it. Where do I start? It's a series of love stories set in Latin America, starting in the 19th century and developing well into the 20th century. It is guessed that it takes place in Colombia, but the novel has the feeling of both a river city or an island nation.. The main characters are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Gaza. Although Love in the Time of Cholera has elements of a short story collection, where the short stories are about the various denizens of the unnamed island/river city, the most attention and thus (according to Kim Stanley Robinson in Aurora) the most love is given to those two characters.
I drive for Lyft every night from midnight to 5:00 AM, and although I only read Love in the Time of Cholera for three nights (between rides), I had several riders comment on the novel which popped up in the touchscreen of my 2017 Chevy Spark. One rider even requested we listen to it together. She started laughing uncontrollably at the dark humor of the novel, and pretty soon I was giggling, myself. This novel really touched me in a way the other books I'm reading haven't, and I'll never forget that five-minute ride with the girl who wanted to listen to it with me.
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