This work's protagonist causes the death of Olimpia Zuleta, a woman he has an (*) affair with after being shunned by a woman who refuses to eat eggplant.
Characters in this work are shocked when a Chinese man wins a poetry contest. The boy Euclides is hired to dive for sunken treasure by one character, while another character lives with her cousin Hildebranda when her counterfeiting father Lorenzo wants her to forget about the protagonist. This work's protagonist causes the death of Olimpia Zuleta, a woman he has an (*) affair with after being shunned by a woman who refuses to eat eggplant. The suicide of the child photographer Jeremiah de Saint-Amour precipitates the death of another character, who dies reaching for his French and Latin-speaking parrot. That allows Dr. Juvenal Urbino's widow to consummate a 51-year-old love on a riverboat that has raised a yellow flag indicating the title disease. For 10 points, name this novel detailing the love between Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Characters in this work are shocked when a Chinese man wins a poetry contest.
Love in the Time of Cholera [or El amor en los tiempos del cÃ³lera]