Memories of My Melancholy Whores
$24.28
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2024
Summary
Marquez Day - A celebration of one of the world’s most loved writers, available in ebook for the first time.
‘The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.’
He has never married, never loved, and never gone to bed with a woman he didn’t pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner’s bed, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241968543 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241968542 |
| Author: | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 97g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Marquez 2014 |
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There is not one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought * The Times *
A velvety pleasure to read… Márquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humour, a love letter to the dying light. * John Updike *
About The Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writesto the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama’s Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014.
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