Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Florentino Ariza is a hopeless romantic who falls passionately for the beautiful Fermina Daza, but finds his love tragically rejected. Instead Fermina marries a distinguished doctor, while Florentino can only wait silently for her. He can never forget his first and only true love. The fifty-one years later, Fermina’s husband dies unexpectedly. At last Florentino has another chance to declare his feelings and discover if a passion that has endured a century will remain unrequited, in a rich, fantastical and humane celebration of love in all its many forms.