by Gabriel García Márquez · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788439711650
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«Memoria de mis putas tristes» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in 2004 by Literatura Random House in hardback (112 pages, in Spanish).
An elderly journalist, solitary and a lover of classical music, decides to celebrate his ninetieth birthday with a night with a virgin teenager. The encounter, arranged by Rosa Cabarcas, transforms him: he discovers love and the possibility of starting anew when time seems exhausted. The novel reflects on old age, desire, and solitude.
It was Gabriel García Márquez's first novel in a decade; the cover indicates the Biblioteca García Márquez collection.
General audience interested in contemporary narrative in Spanish and in the work of Gabriel García Márquez.
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.
