Memories of My Melancholy Whores
- Author Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez, Wendy T. Behary, LCSW
- Narrator Thom Rivera
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 15 October 2013
- Run Time 3 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Fiction: general and literary.
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What to expect
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.
Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.
Critics Review
u201cGarcu00eda Mu00e1rquezu2026has composed, with his usualnsensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light.u201d
nu201cLuminousu2026The cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores liesnin the utteru2014and utterly unexpectedu2014reliability of its narrator.u201d
nu201cProfoundly hauntingu2026Fiction of the very highestnorder.u201d
u201cMasterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it isndisturbing.u201d
u201cUnforgettableu2026Classic Garcu00eda Mu00e1rquez.u201d
nu201cFor heavenu2019s sake read it. It is as accomplished a piece of storytelling as younare likely to find on the shelves today.u201d
nu201cThe Colombian master storytelleru2019s latest novelnis grounded in the steamy atmosphere and gamey politics of his native country;nat the same time, in the universality of its theme, it transcends the peculiarntraits of his bougainvillea-filled homeland. Composed with the metaphoricalnlyricism of a parable but without that narrative formu2019s usual moralizingnintent, Garcu00eda Marquezu2019s novel briefly but piquantly captures a single yearntoward the end of a long string of years in the life of annonagenarianu2026Garcu00eda Marquezu2019s beautiful, poignant story both avoidsnsentimentality and escapes salaciousness.u201d
nu201cFlashes of Garcu00eda Mu00e1rquezu2019s brilliant imageryu2026illuminatenthe novella, and there are striking insights into the euphoria that is the flipnside of the fear of death.u201d
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