Picks and Pans Review: Love in the Time of Cholera

UPDATED 12/26/1988 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 12/26/1988 at 01:00 AM EST

by Gabriel García Márquez
An elegant, touching love story—two people meet in their youth and separate for more than 50 years—unfolds against García Márquez's meditations on everything from social change in Latin America to the intimate rituals of aging.