by Gabriel García Márquez · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141028736
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«Memories of My Melancholy Whores» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Penguin in paperback (128 pages, in English).
On the eve of turning ninety, a Colombian columnist decides to give himself a night of love with a young virgin. The encounter awakens an unknown feeling in him and leads him to remember the women of his past, in a story about love, solitude, and the passage of time.
English edition translated by Edith Grossman of the original novel «Memoria de mis putas tristes» (2004). Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in the fiction category (2005).
For readers of Gabriel García Márquez and magical realism, a short story by the Nobel Prize in Literature winner about love in old age.
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.
