Cholera is transmitted in two ways: unhygienic conditions or contaminated shellfish (particularly raw oysters). Marquez is Columbian and the book’s setting is somewhere in the Caribbean, so it may have been the Columbian coast. I suppose we shall learn how this early character helped stop a cholera epidemic there.
Of course, a new character has just been introduced – I had to look back to see if I’d heard of him before and I had not. So I’m not sure what that’s about.
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I read 100 Years of Solitude and it was much like this, with characters entering and disappearing at random. I was never sure who I needed to remember or not. If you haven't checked out the blog Books Are My Boyfriends, she does a video review of your book which is hilarious. Here is the link: http://booksaremyboyfriends.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/bamb-video-blog-3-love-in-the-time-of-cholera-by-gabriel-garcia-marquez-is-my-boyfriend/
ReplyDeleteI JUST finished this one LAST night! Great timing! It gets better (and a little bit steamy-er, too!) as it goes! I still don't know whether I am happy, sad, annoyed, disgusted or in love with the main character, though.....(written by the FEMALE Biblimaniac!)
ReplyDeleteI suspect I will get my second wind at some point. I haven't picked the book up since this post! Glad to know it gets better.
ReplyDeleteYou are brave! I watched the movie and decided then and there I would not read the book.
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