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While honeymooning, a man in this novel claims he’ll die of embarrassment if his wife requests that Oscar Wilde autograph her glove. In Edith Grossman’s translation, a man in this novel is described as savoring the smell of his “urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus” at a Silver Jubilee meal. A couple in this novel almost divorce after having a prolonged argument about whether there was soap in their bathroom. An opera-lover who inspects the corpse of his former chess partner is reminded (10[1])of one of this novel’s title concepts (10[1])after (10[1])detecting the smell of bitter almonds (10[1])in its opening sentence. An elderly man in this novel dies while climbing a ladder to retrieve his multilingual (10[1])parrot. For 10 points, (10[1])Dr. Juvenal Urbino treats the title disease in what novel by Gabriel García Márquez? ■END■

ANSWER: Love in the Time of Cholera [or El amor en los tiempos del cólera]
<TH, World Literature>
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Aden SunChicago BIndiana A9110
Ned TagtmeierChicago AIllinois C9210
Michael HundingIllinois AWashU B9810
Samarth RamChicago CIndiana B11710
Owen ArnesonMissouriMissoui S&T12110

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