Love in the Time of Cholera half century between 1880 and 1930. The city's "steamy and sleepy streets, rat-infested sewers, old slave quarter, decaying colonial architecture, and multifarious inhabitants" are mentioned variously in the text and mingle amid the lives of the characters. Locations within the story include: Some critics choose to consider "Love in the Time of Cholera" as a sentimental story about the enduring power of true love. Others criticize this opinion as being too simple. García Márquez himself said in an interview, "you have to be careful not to fall into my trap." This is manifested by Ariza's excessively romantic attitude toward life,
A Spy in the House of Love A Spy in the House of Love A Spy in the House of Love is a novel by Anaïs Nin published in 1954. Alongside her other novels, "Ladders to Fire", "Children of the Albatross", "The Four-Chambered Heart" and "Seduction of the Minotaur", which were all first published in the United States between the 1940s and 1960s, "A Spy in the House of Love" was gathered into a collection of her novels known as "Cities of the Interior". The novel follows the character of Sabina; a woman who dares to enjoy the sexual licence that men have always known. Wearing extravagant