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Memories of my melancholy whores

García Márquez, Gabriel 1928-2014 (Author). Grossman, Edith, 1936- (translator).

Summary: 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 an old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms 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.

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  • ISBN: 140004460X
  • ISBN: 9781400044603
  • Physical Description: 115 p. ; 20 cm. : ill.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

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General Note:
A novel.
Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Original Version Note:
Translation of: Memoria de mis putas tristes.

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Subject: Old age -- Fiction
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Genre: Colombian fiction.
Erotic fiction.
Spanish fiction.
Translations into English.

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  • 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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