Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Knopf
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781400044603
Copyright date: 2005
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.

~from the book jacket