Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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 1st edition (Colombia) |
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| Author(s) | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Original title | Memoria de mis putas tristes |
| Translator | Edith Grossman |
| Country | Colombia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Editorial Norma (Colombia) Alfred A. Knopf (US) |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| Published in English |
2005 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 128 |
| ISBN | 978-1-4000-4460-3 |
| OCLC Number | 58431922 |
| Dewey Decimal | 863/.64 22 |
| LC Classification | PQ8180.17.A73 M4613 2005 |
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (original Spanish-language title: Memoria de mis putas tristes) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez.
The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
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[edit] Plot
As with María dos Prazeres in Strange Pilgrims, the protagonist, an old man, finds love at the end of his life, when he only waits for death. This is the story of a relationship of love and sex between an aging journalist and a working-class child, who sells her virginity to help her family.
The action of the story takes place on or after the narrator's 90th birthday.
[edit] Banning in Iran
A Persian edition of Memories of My Melancholy Whores was published in Iran in October 2007, under the title Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts. The first edition of 5,000 sold out within three weeks of publication,[1] after which it was banned, after the Ministry of Culture received complaints from conservatives who believed the novel was promoting prostitution.[2]
[edit] Editions in print
- ISBN 1-4000-9580-8: Vintage; Spanish original, trade paperback
- ISBN 1-4000-9594-8: Vintage; English translation, US paperback
- ISBN 1-4000-4460-X: Knopf; English translation, US hardback
- ISBN 0-224-07764-3: Jonathan Cape; English translation, UK hardback
- ISBN 80-207-1187-2: Odeon; Czech translation, hardback
- ISBN 5-98358-161-9: Online; Russian translation, paperback
- ISBN 3-596-17259-4: Fischer; German translation, paperback
- ISBN 85-01-07265-6: Record; Brazilian Portuguese translation, paperback
- ISBN 83-7319-778-8: Muza; Polish translation with censored title, hardback
- ISBN 2-84305-784-x: Mada; Arabic translation, paperback
[edit] References
- ^ "Iran ban for Garcia Marquez novel," BBC NEWS, Americas.
- ^ Iran bans Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel AP, November 17, 2007
[edit] External links
- Complete Review review
- The New Yorker review
- Page on Metacritic.com
- Fantastic Fiction page
- Film Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez Book Prompts Protest in Mexico by The Los Angeles Times
- 'The Nonagenarian and the Nymphette', review in the Oxonian Review
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