Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Memories of My Melancholy Whores  
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1st edition (Colombia)
Author(s) Gabriel García Márquez
Original title Memoria de mis putas tristes
Translator Edith Grossman
Country Colombia
Language Spanish
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Editorial Norma (Colombia)
Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Publication date 2004
Published in
English		 2005
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 128
ISBN 978-1-4000-4460-3
OCLC Number 58431922
Dewey Decimal 863/.64 22
LC Classification PQ8180.17.A73 M4613 2005

Memories of My Melancholy Whores (original Spanish-language title: Memoria de mis putas tristes) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez.

The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.

Contents

Plot

As with María dos Prazeres in Strange Pilgrims, the protagonist, an old man, finds love at the end of his life, when he only waits for death. This is the story of a relationship of love and sex between an aging journalist and a working-class child, who sells her virginity to help her family.

The action of the story takes place on or after the narrator's 90th birthday.

Banning in Iran

A Persian edition of Memories of My Melancholy Whores was published in Iran in October 2007, under the title Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts. The first edition of 5,000 sold out within three weeks of publication,[1] after which it was banned, after the Ministry of Culture received complaints from conservatives who believed the novel was promoting prostitution.[2]

Editions in print

References

  1. ^ "Iran ban for Garcia Marquez novel," BBC NEWS, Americas.
  2. ^ Iran bans Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel AP, November 17, 2007

External links

v · d · eWorks by Gabriel García Márquez
Novels

In Evil Hour • One Hundred Years of Solitude • The Autumn of the Patriarch • Chronicle of a Death Foretold • Love in the Time of Cholera • The General in His Labyrinth • Of Love and Other Demons • Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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Short stories

Leaf Storm • No One Writes to the Colonel• Big Mama's Funeral • Innocent Eréndira • Strange Pilgrims • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World • A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Non-fiction

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor • Clandestine in Chile • News of a Kidnapping • Living to Tell the Tale

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