Memories of My Melancholy Whores - Rilegato

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

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ISBN 10: 0739325604 ISBN 13: 9780739325605

Casa editrice: Random House Large Print, 2005

Riassunto

Having decided to celebrate his ninetieth birthday by spending the night with a young virgin, an old man falls deeply in love for the first time in his life when he spots the girl at a local brothel. (General Fiction)

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Recensione:

"Unforgettable. . . . Classic Márquez. " –The Washington Post

“García Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light.” –John Updike, The New Yorker

“Luminous. . . . The cunning of Memories lies in the utter–and utterly unexpected-- reliability of its narrator” –The New York Times Book Review
he cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores lies in the utter--and utterly unexpected--reliability of its narrator.
“Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing.” –Los Angeles Times

“As accomplished a piece of storytelling as you are likely to find on the shelves today.”–Chicago Tribune

“Profoundly haunting. . . . Fiction of the very highest order." –The Times Literary Supplement
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L'autore:

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.

Edith Grossman is widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish-to-English translator of our time.

Gabriel García Márquez’s Living to Tell the Tale, The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Love in the Time of Cholera, News of a Kidnapping, and The General in His Labyrinth are available in Vintage paperback. Vivir para contarla, El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Crónica de una muerta anunciada, El general en su laberinto and Memorias de mis putas tristes are available in Vintage Español.

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• Editore: Random House Large Print
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0739325604
• ISBN 13: 9780739325605
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 180