num_pages: 115
description: Contemplates the misfortunes of old age, and celebrates the joys of being in love. This work tells of an unnamed second-rate reporter who on the eve of his ninetieth birthday decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'.~Worldcat.org
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: Jonathan Cape