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My Memories of Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My Memories of Melancholy Whores

von Gabriel García Márquez

Memories 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.

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Art:
Taschenbuch
Genre:
Romane und Erzählungen
Sprache:
englisch
Umfang:
115 Seiten
ISBN:
9780307278494
Erschienen:
Oktober 2006
Verlag:
Random House LCC US
Übersetzer:
Edith Grossman
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