Volume 53, Number 3 · February 23, 2006
Sleeping Beauty
By J.M. Coetzee
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Knopf, 115 pp., $20.00
Gabriel García Márquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera ends with Florentino Ariza, at last united with the woman he has loved from afar all his life, cruising up and down the Magdalena River in a steamboat flying the yellow flag of cholera. The couple are seventy-six and seventy-two, respectively.
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