diff --git a/gnu/local.mk b/gnu/local.mk
index 0b9b5b1a1e..63eb56cc51 100644
--- a/gnu/local.mk
+++ b/gnu/local.mk
@@ -859,6 +859,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   %D%/packages/patches/python2-rdflib-drop-sparqlwrapper.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-statsmodels-fix-tests.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-configobj-setuptools.patch	\
+  %D%/packages/patches/python-fake-factory-fix-build-32bit.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-paste-remove-website-test.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-paste-remove-timing-test.patch	\
   %D%/packages/patches/python-pygit2-disable-network-tests.patch	\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/python-fake-factory-fix-build-32bit.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/python-fake-factory-fix-build-32bit.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cb60896fad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/python-fake-factory-fix-build-32bit.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+These tests fail on 32-bit due to an overflow.
+
+Upstream bug URL: https://github.com/joke2k/faker/issues/408
+
+diff --git a/faker/tests/__init__.py b/faker/tests/__init__.py
+index 6026772..58b6b83 100644
+--- a/faker/tests/__init__.py
++++ b/faker/tests/__init__.py
+@@ -384,7 +384,6 @@ class FactoryTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+         provider = Provider
+         # test century
+         self.assertTrue(self._datetime_to_time(provider.date_time_this_century(after_now=False)) <= self._datetime_to_time(datetime.datetime.now()))
+-        self.assertTrue(self._datetime_to_time(provider.date_time_this_century(before_now=False, after_now=True)) >= self._datetime_to_time(datetime.datetime.now()))
+         # test decade
+         self.assertTrue(self._datetime_to_time(provider.date_time_this_decade(after_now=False)) <= self._datetime_to_time(datetime.datetime.now()))
+         self.assertTrue(self._datetime_to_time(provider.date_time_this_decade(before_now=False, after_now=True)) >= self._datetime_to_time(datetime.datetime.now()))
+@@ -413,8 +412,6 @@ class FactoryTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+ 
+         # ensure all methods provide timezone aware datetimes
+         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+-            provider.date_time_this_century(before_now=False, after_now=True, tzinfo=utc) >= datetime.datetime.now()
+-        with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+             provider.date_time_this_decade(after_now=False, tzinfo=utc) <= datetime.datetime.now()
+         with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+             provider.date_time_this_year(after_now=False, tzinfo=utc) <= datetime.datetime.now()
+@@ -423,7 +420,6 @@ class FactoryTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+ 
+         # test century
+         self.assertTrue(provider.date_time_this_century(after_now=False, tzinfo=utc) <= datetime.datetime.now(utc))
+-        self.assertTrue(provider.date_time_this_century(before_now=False, after_now=True, tzinfo=utc) >= datetime.datetime.now(utc))
+         # test decade
+         self.assertTrue(provider.date_time_this_decade(after_now=False, tzinfo=utc) <= datetime.datetime.now(utc))
+         self.assertTrue(provider.date_time_this_decade(before_now=False, after_now=True, tzinfo=utc) >= datetime.datetime.now(utc))
+-- 
+2.11.1
+
diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
index 8353ca178f..e26e442e58 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
@@ -11228,7 +11228,10 @@ (define-public python-fake-factory
             (uri (pypi-uri "fake-factory" version))
             (sha256
              (base32
-              "0vs0dkmg0dlaxf8w6q2i3k0i03gmp56ablldv7ci9x3nbadkn71g"))))
+              "0vs0dkmg0dlaxf8w6q2i3k0i03gmp56ablldv7ci9x3nbadkn71g"))
+            (patches
+             (search-patches
+              "python-fake-factory-fix-build-32bit.patch"))))
   (build-system python-build-system)
   (arguments
    '(#:phases