Her father has different ideas and wants what HE thinks is best for her. (I hope the following doesn't contain spoilers?!) As adolescents, Florentino and Fermina fall in love. A young person might regard it as romantic. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises - joyful, melancholy, enriching, and ever surprising. With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Gabriel García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century of unrequited love. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs - yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century.
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