MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES by Gabriel García Márquez
 
* About the book *
On 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.
 
* About the author *
Gabriel García Márquez (1927 – 2014) was born in Colombia and was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist. His works include The Autumn of the Patriarch; No One Writes to the Colonel; Love in the Time of Cholera and Memories of My Melancholy Whores; and a memoir, Living to Tell the Tale. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
 
Format: Paperback
Pages: 115
Language: English
Condition: Used