num_pages: 128
description: On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist - an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor - decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."The virgin, whom and old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossomes into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying - not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love.Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant gem by the master storyteller.
language: English
title: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
titlecomplete: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
genres: Magical Realism, Latin American, Classics, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Nobel Prize, Literary Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 84018
places: Colombia
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf