there are people in our lives that are so important, they dwarf everything else. In the Chris Rock film Top Five, Rosario Dawson quotes the novel, saying, "Too much love is as bad for this as no love at all" when talking about her favorite authors. The book was a major part of the plot of the movie Serendipity, where Sara writes her number in the book in the hope that Jon will one day find it. Sales of Love in the Time of Cholera increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The title of the 2020 television show Love in the Time of Corona is a play on the title of the novel, replacing "cholera" with a reference to the coronavirus disease that caused the ongoing pandemic. Multiple musical artists have recorded songs with titles inspired by the book, including Danny Elfman ("Love in the Time of Covid") and AJJ ("Love in the Time of Human Papillomavirus"). In episode 4 of the 2021 Korean drama My Roommate Is a Gumiho, the male lead character Shin Woo-yeo (Jang Ki-yong) references the novel by saying, "You could be Fermina Daza in someone's eyes." Publication details 1985, Colombia, Spanish edition, Oveja Negra, 1985, hardback and paperback (first edition) 1985, Argentina, Spanish edition, Editorial Sudamericana, 1985, hardback (E) (first Argentine edition) 1985, Mexico DF, Spanish edition, Editorial Diana, 1985, paperback (first Mexican edition: 100,000 copies) 1986, The Netherlands, Meulenhoff, , translated into Dutch by Mariolein Sabarte Belacortu. Title: Liefde in tijden van cholera1988, US, Alfred A. Knopf , Published 1 January 1988, hardback (first English-language edition) 1989, US, Penguin Books , Published 7 September 1989, paperback 2003, US, Vintage International , paperback Footnotes External links The Heart's Eternal Vow – New York Times'' Book Review from 1988 by Thomas Pynchon Love in the Time of Cholera Oprah's Pick 2007. 1985 Colombian novels Alfred A. Knopf books Colombian magic realism novels Colombian novels adapted into films Novels by Gabriel García Márquez Novels set in Colombia Spanish-language novels