Read Love in the Time of Cholera

Explore magical realism by Gabriel García Márquez

An angel lands face-down in a courtyard after a storm, and the village starts charging admission to look at him.

Everyone in town knows the twins will kill Santiago Nasar and nobody stops it.

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

A Tokyo dilettante and a geisha at a hot-spring town; Kawabata's Nobel novel.

Visit Cartagena, a historic port city on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Explore the walled Old Town (a UNESCO World Heritage Site with colorful colonial buildings and cobblestone streets), see the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas (a 17th-century fortress with tunnels and panoramic views), stroll along the Getsemaní neighborhood (vibrant street art and lively plazas), and relax at Playa Blanca (white-sand beach with clear turquoise waters).