01967nam a2200289 a 45000010008000000030004000080050017000120080041000290200018000700400029000880410014001170430012001310820013001431000046001562400038002022450117002402500019003572600046003763000029004225200949004515340056014006000105014566500023015616500020015846500029016047000044016331596232OSt20210915102842.0181004s2005    nyu    gr     0001f eng d  a9780307278494  aCO-MqBPBbspa cCO-MqBPB1 aeng hspa  as-ck---04aANbGARm1 aGarc�a M�rquez, Gabriel, d1927-2014.10aMagdalena-Bibliografía regional10aMemories of my melancholy whores / cGabriel García Márquez ; translated from the spanish by Edith Grossman.  aFirst edition.  aNew York : bOpen Market Edition, c2006.  a115 páginas ; c17 cm.  aMemories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel García Márquez’s first work of fiction in ten years, written at the height of his powers, the Spanish edition of which Ilan Stavans called, “Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing” (Los Angeles Times).

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.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant gem by the master storyteller.  pTítulo original : tMemoria de mis putas tristes.14aGarc�a M�rquez, Gabriel, d1927-2014. tMemoria de mis putas tristesx Traducciones al ingl�s. 4aNovela colombiana. 4aNovela amorosa. 4aProstituci�nv Novela.1 aGrossman, Edith, d1936-, etraductora.