Memories of My Melancholy Whores

byGabriel Garcia Marquez

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'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.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

There is not one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought

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About Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9780241968543
  • Length: 128 pages
  • Dimensions: 197mm x 9mm x 130mm
  • Weight: 97g
  • Price: £9.99
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