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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Gabriel García Márquez with Edith Grossman (trans.)

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#577 of 8,085 books · #323 in Fiction

Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2005).

Memories of My Melancholy Whores was 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.

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Publisher
National Geographic Books
ISBN-13
9781400095940
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Aging and mortalityLove and desireSelf-reflection and redemption

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