One character in this novel consumes a flower to imbibe the scent of his affection, only to violently vomit instead.
One character in this novel consumes a flower to imbibe the scent of his affection, only to violently vomit instead. Those two characters begin and end their relationship by telling each other to "get it" and "forget it," with the latter declaration leading one of them to sleep with Rosalba, Widow Nazaret, and numerous other women with the encouragement of the German telegraph operator Lotario Thugut. An esteemed official of the City of the Viceroy in this novel regularly plays chess with the cannibal (*) Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, whose suicide precipitates his own death. The River Company of the Caribbean hires one character in this novel, who reunites with a woman who shut him out of her life fifty-one years ago. Dr. Juvenal Urbino is married to Fermina Daza, who realizes that she loves Florentino Ariza. For 10 points, identify this novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
One character in this novel consumes a flower to imbibe the scent of his affection, only to violently vomit instead.
{Love in the Time of Cholera} [or {El amor en los tiempos del cólera}]