<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print (Hardback & Paperback) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Pages </Th> <Td> 348 pp (First English hardback edition) </Td> </Tr> <P> Love in the Time of Cholera (Spanish: El amor en los tiempos del cólera) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez first published in Spanish in 1985 . Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English - language movie adaptation was released in 2007 . </P> <P> The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza . Florentino and Fermina fall in love in their youth . A secret relationship blossoms between the two with the help of Fermina's Aunt Escolástica . They exchange several love letters . However, once Fermina's father, Lorenzo Daza, finds out about the two, he forces his daughter to stop seeing Florentino immediately . When she refuses, he and his daughter move in with his deceased wife's family in another city . Regardless of the distance, Fermina and Florentino continue to communicate via telegraph . However, upon her return, Fermina realizes that her relationship with Florentino was nothing but a dream since they are practically strangers; she breaks off her engagement to Florentino and returns all his letters . </P>

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