by Gabriel García Márquez · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896600228
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«Memória das Minhas Putas Tristes» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez published by BIS in paperback, with 96 pages, in Portuguese.
A journalist about to turn ninety, who has spent his life among prostitutes, books and chronicles, decides to celebrate it with a night with a young virgin. The encounter, arranged by the owner of a brothel, holds an unexpected experience for him that forces him to reconsider love and old age.
The novel was originally published in 2004 as «Memoria de mis putas tristes»; this Portuguese edition is from 2009. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in 2005 in the fiction category.
For readers of contemporary literature and magical realism who want a short novel by García Márquez.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
