A woman in this novel nearly has Oscar Wilde sign her glove during a honeymoon in Europe. A character in this novel accepts a marriage proposal on the condition that she does not have to eat eggplant. That woman in this novel treasures a picture of her and her cousin taken by a chess-loving Belgian photographer. With his dying breath, a man in this novel says, “Only God knows how much I have (*) loved you” after he falls from a ladder while trying to grab a parrot. This novel begins with that character, a distinguished doctor, noting the smell of bitter almonds. This novel ends with an elderly couple taking a trip on a riverboat flying the yellow flag of disease. For 10 points, Florentino Ariza rekindles his romance with Fermina Daza in what novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez? ■END■
ANSWER: Love in the Time of Cholera [or El amor en los tiempos del cólera]
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