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  An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny.Sunday Telegraph Time, love, age, memory, death, chaos, passion and the spirit of place: this capacious novel wraps its arms effortlessly around all the great themes while entertaining us with a funny and wistful love story set beside the Caribbean. Observer An anatomy of love in all its forms... The novels other great subject, like Prousts Remembrance of Things Past, is timehow memory transfigures and redeems all that has gone before... Mr Garcia Marquez has revealed how the extraordinary is contained in the ordinary. The result is a rich, commodious novel, a novel whose narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision.The New York Times An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men and women. In part it is a brilliantly witty account of the tussles in a long marriage, whose details are curiously moving; elsewhere it is a fantastic tale of love finding erotic fulfilment in ageing bodies... The richness, delicacy and resonance of this fable places it among Marquezs best fiction. The Times A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Marquez have never been better shown. Independent