![]() ![]() Ariza is a born lover, patient beyond belief, in love with love (platonic and sexual), an eroticist of impressive concentration-and his conquests and griefs at least keep the book moving chronologically. The principals are a merchant-trader, Florentino Ariza the sheltered and beautiful Fermina Daza and the starchy physician who marries her, Dr. But maybe here it doesn't mean to-it's a story of a decades-long love triangle that bridges the turn of the century in a Caribbean sea-coast town. Elective in the sense that, like One Hundred Years (a book more grazed-in than fully read, the candid reader will admit), you can loll in the lushness and the brilliant details and the generous metaphors, but getting up and walking out of Garcia Marquez's imagination is fairly easy to do: it's a book that doesn't hold on to you. ![]() Almost two decades after One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez has delivered another long, woolly, at times wonderful but consistently elective novel. ![]()
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