For 10 points, name this novel about Florentino Ariza's pursuit of Fermina Daza, a work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
One of the main characters in this novel gets a writing job from Uncle Leo XII and tries to reunite with Ausencia after a robbery at her home ends their long affair. Another main character examines the dead body of his fiercest chess competitor, who has committed suicide. Yet another character in this novel climbs a ladder to try to remove his pet parrot from a tree but falls to his own death, giving an unmarried former lover of his wife a chance to rekindle their romance after (*) fifty-one years apart; the two finally consummate their relationship on a riverboat that can never come ashore because of its yellow flag. For 10 points, name this novel about Florentino Ariza's pursuit of Fermina Daza, a work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
One of the main characters in this novel gets a writing job from Uncle Leo XII and tries to reunite with Ausencia after a robbery at her home ends their long affair.
Love in the Time of Cholera [or El amor en los tiempos del cólera]