Used book: *Memories of My Melancholy Whores* [Like New]

[2018 new edition, more exquisite binding, a must-have for collection]

★The last novel by Gabriel García Márquez

★The original work created a publishing miracle in Spanish

First print of 1.3 million copies, 500,000 more copies reprinted within a week

★ "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is unlike anything García Márquez has written before; reading it gives a velvety pleasure. It is a love letter he wrote to the fading light. —John Updike

★ García Márquez wrote a novel that explores another value, the value of extreme, pure, impossible love; this is classic love, challenging time to radiate its fleeting brilliance; it is also romantic love, challenging death to complete the narrative of memories. —Julio Ortega (Peruvian poet)

On my ninetieth birthday, I wanted to find a young virgin to give myself a night of wild love. I remembered Rosa Cabarcas, the madam of the underground brothel, who used to immediately inform reputable customers whenever a good new girl arrived. I never succumbed to this trick or any of her vulgar temptations, but she still didn't believe in the purity of my principles. Morality is just a matter of time, she sneered, just you wait. She was only slightly younger than me, and I hadn't heard from her in years, so she might even be dead. But as soon as the phone rang, I recognized her voice. Without further ado, I got straight to the point:

"Today's the day."