Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By: Gabriel Garci a Ma rquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman
Contributors: Grossman, Edith, 1936-
Edition: First Vintage International edition (2)
Publisher: Vintage International
Published: 2006 November
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translation of: Memoria de mis putas tristes
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781101911167
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Older men; Fiction; General; Prostitutes; FICTION
Work titles: Memoria de mis putas tristes
Description: 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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Notes: US / CAN edition