Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Books | Fiction / Magical Realism
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Gabriel García Márquez
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!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.
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Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Pages
128
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2014-10-15
ISBN
1101911166 9781101911167
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"The writing was so good that I was almost able to overlook how much I disliked the main character. It feels like reading a soap opera not in the sense of the plot but in the sense of the aesthethic and vibe if you know what I mean."
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"The truth of loving deeply and what time together can really mean in both spoken and unspoken ways. Loved this!"
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