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Learn moreOn the eve of his ninetieth birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit—he has purchased hundreds of women—he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.
Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.
Wendy T. Behary, LCSW, is founder and clinical director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and a faculty member at the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York. She is also a founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Behary maintains a private practice, specializing in narcissism and couples therapy.
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American boom. Among his many books are The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
Read by Thom Rivera, Dawn Harvey, Carol Monda, Hillary Huber, Bernadette Dunne, and Kyla Garcia
Edith Grossman has translated the poetry and prose of major Spanish-language authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, Alvaro Mutis, and Mayra Montero, as well as Mario Vargas Llosa.
Reviews
“García Márquez…has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light.”
“Luminous…The cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores lies in the utter—and utterly unexpected—reliability of its narrator.”
“Profoundly haunting…Fiction of the very highest order.”
“Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing.”
“Unforgettable…Classic García Márquez.”
“For heaven’s sake read it. It is as accomplished a piece of storytelling as you are likely to find on the shelves today.”
“The Colombian master storyteller’s latest novel is grounded in the steamy atmosphere and gamey politics of his native country; at the same time, in the universality of its theme, it transcends the peculiar traits of his bougainvillea-filled homeland. Composed with the metaphorical lyricism of a parable but without that narrative form’s usual moralizing intent, García Marquez’s novel briefly but piquantly captures a single year toward the end of a long string of years in the life of a nonagenarian…García Marquez’s beautiful, poignant story both avoids sentimentality and escapes salaciousness.”
“Flashes of García Márquez’s brilliant imagery…illuminate the novella, and there are striking insights into the euphoria that is the flip side of the fear of death.”
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