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This book is being released via BookCrossing on 5 March 2011 as part of the inaugural World Book Night. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with libraries, World Book Day and the BBC, one million books will be given away by an army of passionate readers to members of the public across the UK and Ireland.

Read and release!

I'm giving out 48 copies of this book in and around Sheffield for World Book Night 2011.
Enjoy!!!

Arrived today on my birthday! Thanks very much jaynereader!

Very lyrical language, even though it is a translation. I can't imagine what it must be like to read in the original. However, I didn't really get the impression of love at all, between any of the characters. The main love story was more a pathological obsession than love. And Fermina's motivations were never really that clear to me. She didn't seem interested in Florentino at all and yet eventually agreed to marry him, then rejected him without any explanation whatsoever. She didn't appear to be interested in Urbino either, and yet out of the blue she married him. I don't think the author really understands women and knows how to write female characters, and just presents them as unfathomable creatures whose motivations no man can understand. I felt that way about his other books too. Even so, a well written and interesting book.

Saw this on somebody's wishlist and decided to send it out to them as a surprise rabck. Hope you enjoy!!

Thank you so much teapot! What a great surprise! Really looking forward to reading this one!