Edith Grossman
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores: A Novel
Gabriel García Márquez, Edith Grossman
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…
