Books like Love in the Time of Cholera
A man waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days for the woman he loves, and the novel asks whether that patience is devotion or madness.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of the Buendía family rise and fall in the mythical town of Macondo, where miracles are mundane and history is a spiral.
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Dona Flor, who runs a cookery school in Salvador da Bahia, marries a respectable pharmacist after her wild first husband drops dead dancing at Carnival, and then the first husband comes back as a ghost.
Chéri
Léa de Lonval, a celebrated courtesan nearing fifty, has kept Chéri, the beautiful son of an old friend, as her lover for six years, and his mother has arranged for him to marry a young heiress.
The Leopard
In 1860, as Garibaldi's troops land in Sicily, Prince Fabrizio of Salina watches the aristocratic world he was born into give way to the new Italy, and arranges his nephew's marriage to the daughter of a rich upstart.
The Bad Girl
Ricardo, a Peruvian who wants nothing more than to live in Paris, falls for a girl he meets as a teenager in 1950s Lima, and she comes back into his life over four decades under different names.
Until August
Every August, on the anniversary of her mother's death, Ana Magdalena Bach takes the ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and one year she spends the night with a stranger.
Tar Baby
A successful Black model visiting her wealthy white patrons on a Caribbean island meets a drifter who upends her sense of self.
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Two Cuban brothers, Cesar and Nestor Castillo, come to New York in 1949 to play mambo, and their brush with fame on I Love Lucy echoes through Cesar's memories decades later.
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon
In the cocoa port of Ilhéus in 1925, Nacib, a Syrian-born bar owner, hires Gabriela, a beautiful migrant from the backlands, as his cook, while the town's colonels fight over power.
Across the River and into the Trees
Colonel Richard Cantwell, fifty, scarred by two wars and with a failing heart, spends a winter weekend in Venice duck-hunting and with Renata, a young Venetian countess who loves him.
Baltasar and Blimunda
In eighteenth-century Portugal, a one-handed war veteran and a woman who can see inside people's bodies help a renegade priest build a flying machine while the king raises a vast convent and the Inquisition watches.
Dom Casmurro
Bento Santiago, an embittered old lawyer in Rio de Janeiro, sets down the story of his love for his childhood sweetheart Capitu, and of his suspicion that she betrayed him.