Memoria de mis putas tristes / Memories of my Melancholy Whores - Gabriel Garca Mrquez

"El ao de mis noventa aos quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente
virgen."

Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa aos a lo grande, dndose
un regalo que le har sentir que todava est vivo: una jovencita. En el prostbulo
de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y
su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero
no por viejo, sino de amor.

As, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de
este anciano solitario lleno de manas. Por l sabremos cmo en todas sus aventuras
sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino
que de ese modo encontrara el verdadero amor.

Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora
reflexin que celebra las alegras del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras
de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel Garca Mrquez.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"In
my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young
virgin."

An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way,
giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a virgin.
In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely
naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close
to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.

Memoria de mis putas tristes is the
story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of
which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would
be the way he would discover true love.

This new novel, written in Gabriel Garca
Mrquez's incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and
celebrates the joys of being in love.