Love in the Time of Cholera (film) Love in the Time of Cholera (film) Love in the Time of Cholera is a 2007 film directed by Mike Newell. Based on the novel "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez, it tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her two suitors, Florentino Ariza (Javier Bardem) and Doctor Juvenal Urbino (Benjamin Bratt) which spans 50 years, from 1880 to 1930. Producer Scott Steindorff spent over three years courting Gabriel García Márquez for the rights to the book telling him that he was Florentino and would not give up
Almost Like Being in Love (novel) Almost Like Being in Love (novel) Almost Like Being in Love is a 2004 gay-fiction romance novel by author Steve Kluger. Like his previous novel "Last Days of Summer", "Almost Like Being in Love" is an epistolary novel; the story is told primarily through diary entries, newspaper clippings, office documents, letters, e-mails, menus, post-it notes and checklists, with only minor reliance on narrative. Kluger uses experiences and people from his life as inspiration for his novels. The book centers around the relationship between two men, Travis and Craig, who meet and fall in love in 1978, during their senior year