1985Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez
García Márquez never names the Caribbean port of the novel, but readers and scholars identify it as Cartagena de Indias, with touches of Barranquilla and the Magdalena River. The walled colonial city, its cathedral and its seafront arcades supply the streets where Florentino Ariza waits half a century for Fermina Daza.
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