Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translated by Edith Grossman

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Category: Fiction - Literary
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-9594-0 (1-4000-9594-8)

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Translated by Edith Grossman
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781400095940
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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.