Laura Vogt is a historian, storyteller, and poet.
She loves all things wild and beautiful.
Vogt lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband and three children.
Her new novel is In the Great Quiet.
At Lit Hub Vogt tagged seven favorite slow-burn romances, including:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)Read about another entry on the list.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera confronts the limits of patience. Florentino Ariza falls passionately in love with FerminaDaza—but she marries another. Over the next five decades, Florentino waits for Fermina, sustaining his devotion by writing her hundreds of letters. His longing swells beyond love into obsession.
Marquez’s saga joins Dickens’ Great Expectations and Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, books in which unrequited love stretches the width of the narrative. The boundaries blur between obsession, romantic delusion, and love. Love in the Time of Cholera questions the virtue of patience. It’s a story about waiting. Marquez grapples with what remains after decades: does steadfast longing make a god of love or hollow it out.
Love in the Time of Cholera also made Kerry Wolfe's list of ten of the greatest love stories in novels, Kate Kellaway's list of the best books about love, Jojo Moyes's list of five happy literary novels, Isabella Hammad's list of six top books of correspondence, Sameer Rahim's list of five essential works by Gabriel García Márquez, Jill Boyd's top six list of memorable marriage proposals in literature, the Christian Science Monitor's list of six novels about grand passions, Ann Brashares' six favorite books list, and Marie Arana's list of the best books about love; it is one of Hugh Thomson’s top ten books on South American journeys.
--Marshal Zeringue
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