Penguin Books, 1988 - Cover illustration by Cathleen Toelke. Cover Design by Neil Stuart.
BOOKS READ 23: LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA BY GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
I remember being in an English classroom in high school and seeing student posters (remember those ones, dollar store fluorescent poster paper with titles done in marker pens and computer print outs glued on top?) about this book and thinking that, that looks like a book I might like (because it, ha, had the title “love” in it, I didn’t really know what cholera was, except that it was some kind of disease, which is all you really need to know for the purposes of this book). But it also looked like it was a book for older people (High school mind) and could also be kind of boring. Reading it now, I am kind of surprised that kids were allowed to read this book in a high school English class. All the sex (with various women of different ages, most notably one that was underage), I just didn’t think anyone would be able to get past it. There are deep ideas about love, showing one variation of it, one filled with nervousness, agonizing, and years of waiting and conviction. And even though the bodies and time showed time, the waiting was a means to an end.
I’m hoping for another variation for myself though.
With less…agonizing.
And waiting.
But, of course with equal amounts of excitement.
