Memories Of My Melancholy Whores

　　The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin'

　　He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner's bed, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love.

　　Memories of My Melancholy Whores is re-issued on Gabriel García Márquez 's birthday to celebrate the publication of his books as ebooks for the first time.

作者簡介

　　Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014 ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback from August 2007. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.