Memories Of My Melancholy Whores
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Description:
'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. Each night, exhau...
'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. Each night, exhau...
Description:
'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. Each night, exhausted by her factory work, 'Delgadina' sleeps peacefully whilst he watches her quietly. During these solitary early hours, his love for her deepens and he finds himself reflecting on his newly found passion and the loveless life he has led. By day, his columns in the local newspaper are read avidly by those who recognise in his outpourings the enlivening and transformative power of love. The publication of 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores' spearheads 'Penguin's' celebration of Marquez's 80th birthday in 2007.
Review:
Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller Daily Mail Profoundly haunting ... one of literature's great figures pushes back the years and gives us fiction of the very highest order TLS A velvety pleasure to read... Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humour, a love letter to the dying light. John Updike There is not one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought The Times
Author Biography:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Living to Tell the Tale, amongst other works of his fiction and non-fiction to be reissued in 2007 and 2008. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our 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. Each night, exhausted by her factory work, 'Delgadina' sleeps peacefully whilst he watches her quietly. During these solitary early hours, his love for her deepens and he finds himself reflecting on his newly found passion and the loveless life he has led. By day, his columns in the local newspaper are read avidly by those who recognise in his outpourings the enlivening and transformative power of love. The publication of 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores' spearheads 'Penguin's' celebration of Marquez's 80th birthday in 2007.
Review:
Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller Daily Mail Profoundly haunting ... one of literature's great figures pushes back the years and gives us fiction of the very highest order TLS A velvety pleasure to read... Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humour, a love letter to the dying light. John Updike There is not one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought The Times
Author Biography:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera and Living to Tell the Tale, amongst other works of his fiction and non-fiction to be reissued in 2007 and 2008. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.
| Autor | Marquez, Gabriel Garcia |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2007 |
| Kirjastus | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Köide | Pehmekaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 128 |
| Pikkus | 198 |
| Laius | 198 |
| Keel | English |
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