CARTAGENA - A PASSIONATE CARIBBEAN CITY

Oprah Winfrey announced her newest book club selection, depicted by Cartagena, in the Love in the Time of Cholera, writen by Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Oprah Winfrey announced today that the romantic novel, Love in the Time of Cholera, is her newest book club selection. The writer, Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez was inspired by the beautiful city of Cartagena on Colombia's Caribbean coast. And a movie based on the book and set in Cartagena will be released in January. Mark Stratton has written an article for The Times about the book, the movie, and Cartagena:

"Cartagena is a passionate Caribbean city – and the perfect backdrop for Márquez's allegorical love story tracing Florentino Ariza's obsessive love for Fermina Daza.