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Eradication. It can be a noble goal, or a petulant pipe dream. But can it really ever be achieved? We ask that of love — whether perceived as the disease or the cure — in Gabriel Garca M rquez’s 1985 novel, “Love in the Time of Cholera”, an ode to passion, persistence, and the passage of time through the lens of magical realism from this Nobel Prize-winning, Colombian author. We’re no strangers to disease in this pandemic age, but what if the virus is true love? Meet Patients Zero, Florentino and Fermina. Struck by a deep, youthful romance, their relationship is thwarted by the ultimate enemy: reason. Throughout the novel, M rquez traces the lovers’ individual paths to finding themselves and, perhaps, back to each other.
To join our book club, visit sdmag.com/bookclub. Then visit one of the participating local, indie bookstores to buy a copy of Orlando. Email a photo of your receipt to books @ sdmag.com. We’ll randomly select one winner each month who will get $300 to any one of CH Projects Establishments (Neighborhood, Born and Raised, Craft & Commerce, Ironside).
No one ever died thinking, “I should’ve read less.”
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