by Gabriel García Márquez · Editorial Norma · tapa blanda · ISBN 7706894224821
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores is the final novel by Gabriel García Márquez. It tells the story of a lonely journalist who decides to celebrate his 90th birthday by spending a night with a young virgin, leading him to discover love for the first time in his long life.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
