Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Appreciated this one more than One Hundred Years of Solitude, but with the caveat that there are a lot of... problematic aspects to the story that only make sense if you consider the metaphorical idea of love as a disease (as suggested by the title). Marquez's writing is poetic at its finest and some moments feel genuinely beautiful, but in the broader scheme of things, it's also uncomfortably disturbing. And I think he intended it to be that way.
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