Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love.

Márquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller * Daily Mail *
Profoundly haunting … one of literature's great figures pushes back the years and gives us fiction of the very highest order * TLS *
There is not one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought * The Times *

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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ISBN 13	9780241968543
ISBN 10	0241968542
Title	Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Author	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2014-03-06
Number of pages	128
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