Memories of my melancholy whores
Record details
- ISBN: 140004460X
- ISBN: 9781400044603
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Physical Description:
115 p. ; 20 cm. : ill.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | A novel. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. |
Original Version Note: | Translation of: Memoria de mis putas tristes. |
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Subject: | Old age -- Fiction Older men -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction Reminiscing in old age -- Fiction Prostitutes -- Fiction Love -- Fiction Colombia -- Fiction |
Genre: | Colombian fiction. Erotic fiction. Spanish fiction. Translations into English. |
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Summary:
On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist -- an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor -- decides to give himself “the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.” The virgin, whom an old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossoms into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying -- not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love.