Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is Gabriel Garcia Mårquez's first work of fiction in ten years, 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 decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."
The virgin 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.
--jacket
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English Japanese French Modern Greek Spanish
Subjects
psychology, sexual behavior, prostitutes, Periodistas, novela, Vejez, Romans, Amours, Adolescentes, Hommes âgés, Latin America Author, Biography, Journalists, Ficción, Old age, Fiction, Erotic stories, Older men, Love stories, Translations from Spanish, Translations into Portuguese, Spanish fiction, Portuguese fiction, Older people, Latin america, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Man-woman relationships, fiction, Novela colombiana, Latin American AuthorsPlaces
ColombiaShowing 9 featured editions. View all 31 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2006 November, Vintage International
Paperback
in English
- First Vintage International edition (2)
1101911166 9781101911167
|
eeee
|
2 |
cccc
|
3 |
eeee
|
4 |
cccc
|
5
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2005, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover
in English
- First edition
140004460X 9781400044603
|
eeee
|
6
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2005, Random House Large Print
Hardcover
in English
- 1st large print ed. (1)
0739325604 9780739325605
|
aaaa
|
7
Οι θλιμμένες πουτάνες της ζωής μου
2004, Ekdotikos Organismos Livane
in Modern Greek
9601409815 9789601409818
|
zzzz
|
8
Memoria de mis putas tristes
2004 October, Editorial Sudamericana / Mondadori
in Spanish
- 1st edition
9500725878 9789500725873
|
zzzz
|
9
Memoria de mis putas tristes
2004-10, Vintage Español
Paperback
in Spanish
- 1. ed. de Vintage Español.
1400095808 9781400095803
|
eeee
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Work Description
"Cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario, un apasionado de la música clásica, nada aficionado de las mascotas y lleno de manías. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imaginó que de ese modo encontraría el verdadero amor."-- P. [4] of cover.
Excerpts
first sentence
Links outside Open Library
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 1, 2008
- 15 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 9, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
January 29, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Edited without comment. |
January 29, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Added new cover |
January 29, 2021 | Edited by Lisa | Added link to IA copy. |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |