‘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 novel’s other great subject, like Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, is time—how 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 Marquez’s best fiction.’
—The Times

‘A delight. The interlocking of the stories, the fantastical and obsessional aspects of Marquez have never been better shown.’
—Independent