The book "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The novel by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez is a touching story of unconditional and irrevocable love, a love that can overcome everything: time and space, life's difficulties and materialism, the imperfection and despair of the human soul. Fermina Daza rejects the youthful love and dreams of Florentino Arza and marries Juvenal Urbino, a famous doctor actively fighting cholera, who, unlike the sensual and emotional Florentino Arza, is distinguished by exceptional restraint and balance. This melancholic and incredibly touching story is seasoned with Marquez's fantastic sarcasm, humorous episodes, the spirit of old times, loving outpourings and deep lyricism. After the death of her husband, memories of past happiness and a painful feeling of loneliness, Fermina is lucky enough to taste mature love, and the two elderly lovers indulge in the pleasures of love and travel, believing that love knows neither hour nor time.