Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez

On the eve of his 90th 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 14-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.

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Gabriel Garcia MarquezGabriel García Márquez is best known for his novels One Hundred Yea of Solitude, and Love in the Time of Cholera.

This new short novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, told with elegance and grace, leaves the reader with a sense of something pure and moving and poignant, and very human.
The latest novel by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been banned in Iran - but only after censo noticed its title had been sanitised.
The book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, was published in Fai as Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts.

One of Charles Bukowski's best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant way from one drink to the next