Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Authors: García Márquez, Gabriel
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC027230, FIC056000, FIC061000
ISBN: 9781101911167, Related ISBNs: 0739325604, 1101911166, 140004460X, 1400095948, 9780739325605
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 128,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!

A New York Times Notable Book
 
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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