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Cover of Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Love In the Time of Cholera — Audiobook

13.3est. listening hrs
4.2★58 ratings
Romancegenre
Free with trial

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 13.3 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Love In the Time of Cholera at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day27 days
1 hour / day14 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×9 days

What our data says

  • At 13.3 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 85% of the romance audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 48% longer than the average romance audiobook (9 hrs across 819 titles in our dataset).

Computed from romance audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.

Who is this for?

Best for romance listeners who want a central love story and a historical setting — a solid week of commutes at 13.3 hours (estimated).

About the book

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again. With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Gabriel García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century of unrequited love.

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Love In the Time of Cholera audiobook?

Love In the Time of Cholera runs about 13.3 hours — our estimate from its 451 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.9 hours.

Can I listen to Love In the Time of Cholera free?

Yes — with the audiobooks.com free trial. Start the trial, get Love In the Time of Cholera included, and cancel anytime; the trial stays free.

Is Love In the Time of Cholera worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.9 hours — saving 4.4 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.

When was Love In the Time of Cholera first published?

Love In the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez was first published in 1985.