Reviews
"This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." -- The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary." -- Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing." -- Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. Garca Mrquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." -- Newsday "A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." -- The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." -- The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary." -- Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing." -- Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. GarcÃa Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." -- Newsday "A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." -- The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." -- The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power and delicious comedy . . . humane, richly comic, almost unbearably touching and altogether extraordinary." -- Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative...magical...splendid writing." -- Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling.... García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." -- Newsday "A sumptuous book...[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." -- The Washington Post Book World "The greatest luxury, as in all of García Márquez's books, is the eerie, entirely convincing suspension of the laws of reality . . . the agelessness of the human story as told by one of this century's most evocative writers." --Anne Tyler, Chicago Sun-Times Book Week, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." --The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power…. Altogether extraordinary." --Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative…magical…splendid writing." --Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling…. GarcÃa Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." --Newsday "A sumptuous book…[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." --The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." --The New York Times Book Review "A love story of astonishing power.... Altogether extraordinary." --Newsweek "Brilliant, provocative...magical...splendid writing." --Chicago Tribune "Beguiling, masterly storytelling.... García Márquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." --Newsday "A sumptuous book...[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." --The Washington Post Book World, "This shining and heartbreaking novel may be one of the greatest love stories ever told." --"The New York Times Book Review ""A love story of astonishing power.... Altogether extraordinary." --"Newsweek " "Brilliant, provocative...magical...splendid writing." --"Chicago Tribune " "Beguiling, masterly storytelling.... Garcia Marquez writes about love as saving grace, the force that makes life worthwhile." --"Newsday " "A sumptuous book...[with] major themes of love, death, the torments of memory, the inexorability of old age." --"The Washington Post Book World"