Love in the time of Cholera

London: Jonathan Cape, 1988.

First UK Edition in the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. Head of spine very lightly fingers. No old inscriptions. A Fine copy. Translation of the original Columbian-Spanish novel 'El Amor en los Tiempos del Cólera'. The writer Thomas Pynchon, described the novel as "revolutionary in daring to suggest that vows of love made under a presumption of immortality - youthful idiocy, to some - may yet be honored, much later in life when we ought to know better, in the face of the undeniable.... There is nothing I have read quite like this astonishing final chapter, symphonic, sure in its dynamics and tempo, moving like a riverboat too... at the very best it results in works that can even return our worn souls to us, among which most certainly belongs Love in the Time of Cholera, this shining and heartbreaking novel".