Oprah gives nod to one from the past

Oprah Winfrey has picked “Love in the Time of Cholera,” the epic love story by Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez, as her next book club selection.

“If you love love, this book is the best love story ever,” Winfrey said Friday on her daytime talk show.

The novel by the Colombian-born García Márquez was published in 1985. Set on the Caribbean coast of South America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it tells the tale of a woman and two men, and an unrequited love that spans 50 years.

García Márquez, 80, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.

Vintage Books, a paperback imprint of Random House Inc., announced a new printing of 750,000 copies of the novel and an additional 30,000 for the original Spanish-language text.