Memories of My Melancholy Whores -- Gabriel García Márquez, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit-he has purchased hundreds of women-he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.

Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master's work.

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/14/2006
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781400095940

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/19/2006 pg. 28

About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and nonfiction. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.