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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Penguin Random House
| Author:
MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Author:
MARQUEZ, GABRIEL GARCIA
Language:
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garca M¡rquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. ‘The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin’ 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. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . ‘M¡rquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller’ Daily Mail ‘M¡rquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic’ Tatler ‘M¡rquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do’ Salman Rushie
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garca M¡rquez, author of the One Hundred Years of Solitude. ‘The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin’ 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. And so the columnist realises he must chronicle the life of his heart, to offer it freely to the world. . . ‘M¡rquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller’ Daily Mail ‘M¡rquez is wonderful on the transformative and redemptive powers of love. . . storytelling magic’ Tatler ‘M¡rquez writes in this lyrical, magical language that no-one else can do’ Salman Rushie
About Author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogot¡, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (25). Many of his books arepublished by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 214.
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