Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Florentino Ariza waits fifty years for his first love, numbing his obsession through 622 sexual encounters. The story reveals the predatory reality behind his "undying" devotion and the contrast between his claimed fidelity and prolific promiscuity. 

 

This book contains: alcohol, animal cruelty/culling, anxiety, body horror, controversial political, religious and social commentary, death, deception, depression, derogatory terms, divination, explicit sexual activities/nudity, extortion, fetishes/kinks, grooming/exploitation, inflammatory gender,  legal/moral, and racial commentary,  murder, obsession, patently offensive content, pedophilia, pervasively vulgar  content, pornographic descriptions, predatory behavior, profanity, prostitution, prurient content, rape/sexual assault (multiple), smoking, suicide, use of paraphilia, unsolicited pursuit, violence and voyeurism.