num_pages: 115
description: 'The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin'Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a sensual and hypnotic journey through the mind of a man discovering love for the first time after a lifetime filled with hundreds of different women. The nights spent sleeping side-by-side with his 'Delgadina' fill his soul with an unexpected longing. He feels her presence when she is not there. The now passionate meditations of his newspaper columns are bound up in love and received by a rapturous, growing readership, and in his imagination – as real for him as memories – he sees them together as they might have been. This is a story of one man's reassessment of his life as he awakens to the transformative power of love.~penguin.com.au
language: English
title: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
titlecomplete: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
genres: Magical Realism, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Latin American Literature, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 84027
places: Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin