El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Colera / Love in the Time of Cholera

First Line:

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

Description:

Published to worldwide critical acclaim, with more than one million copies already in print, this is the lush, wondrous story of an unrequited love that survives half a century and more than 600 distractions.

Selected Reviews:

"A wonderful and meandering excursion into love in its many guises. Blessedly, it concedes that age is no barrier to romantic love."

--Edna O'Brien, New York Times