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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. 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 Márquez's 80th birthday in 2007.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20174 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Review
'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 '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 'There is not one stale sentence, redundant word or unfinished thought' The Times

Tatler
'Marquez describes this amorous, sometimes disturbing journey with the grace and vigour of a master storyteller'

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