I'm currently reading this and I have not finished it yet which is why it's the first book that I could ever think of. This novel has settings, like of the 19th century, I guess.
It's all about Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza who have shared their young and conjugal love in their young transition years. They were hopelessly young lovers who has a world apart from each other because of their social statuses. But neither minded it and they've continued in burning with the flames of love. They were passionately in love. They exchanged letters without the knowledge of Fermina Daza's father, who opposes their affair.
According to the synopsis at the back of the book, Fermina Daza eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Florentino Ariza was devastated but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career over the years and have encountered 622 affairs, he reserves his heart flaming with love for Fermina Daza.
When Dr. Juvenal Urbino died at last, Florentino attended his funeral. After fifty-one years, nine months, and four days after he declared his love for her, he will do it all again.
I've never read this kind of novel before. Gabriel Marquez was very intimate in his words. The romantic sense of his writing has captured the way I feel about love.
The quotes that I couldn't forget...
...that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not endedhalf a century later.
There is no greater glory than to die for love
