The story takes place in the Caribbean town of La Manga, which lives plunged continuous civil wars and the constant threat of cholera. Fermina Daza together her father, Lorenzo Daza, and her aunt, scholastic, moved from San Juan de la Ciénaga La Manga in search of a more promising future. Once there, appears Florentino Ariza, who falls head over heels for Fermina, which begins to besiege with extensive love letters that, later, Fermina corresponds. But, one day, Lorenzo Ariza is alerted to the play and decides to go to spend a season away from La Manga, since he wanted another kind of husband for his daughter. Thus, they marched to San Juan de la Ciénaga where Fermina, compinchada with his cousin Hildebranda Sánchez, continues to maintain correspondence with Florentino. Eventually, the Daza family returns to La Manga. A day in which Fermina goes to market, meets Florentino, realizing, at the moment, that is not in love with him, and thus communicates. Florentino is shattered, but swears to himself that afternoon or early will get the love of Fermina. Time passes, and one day in which Fermina falls ill, going to make her a visit the doctor of the village, Juvenal Urbino of the street. This, to see the arrogance and pride of Fermina, falls surrendered to his feet and does everything so she accepts to marry him. After several attempts, Fermina yields at the insistence of the doctor and she is married, to the great sorrow of Florentine. Florentino, to the despair of the sudden loss of Fermina, "Decides" that Juvenal Urbino will die before Fermina, and therefore to be this one, appear to live the love that had been banned. A day of Pentecost, in which old age already had settled on the characters, Juvenal, trying to rescue his parrot that was caught in a tree, dies falling from a ladder. That same day, appears in the wake by the famous doctor, Florentino that leverages to remind Fermina the promise that was waiting for her forever cast in his youth, to which Fermina responds, since it is taken as a daring. After a time of the death of Juvenal, Florentino takes up play with Fermina, which at first reluctant. But to celebrate a year of the death of Juvenal, Florentino attends mass and Fermina greets you with great emphasis, made Florentino takes as a hope. So, after a few days, shows up on of Fermina, made will become habit and Fermina gonna thank. They pass the days and months, and Fermina decides to take a trip by the Magdalena river, which is prepared by Florentino. The trip, which in principle was only going to do Fermina, is that it becomes a kind of honeymoon between the two, finally discover that love can appear at any age, in the case of Fermina, or continue life, in the case of Florentino
Posted on: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 03:10:18 +0000
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