Memoria de mis putas tristes / Memories of my Melancholy Whores (Paperback)

from luvdancr

Spanish is my second language, and I'm still learning, so, I found this book a little difficult to read and I found that I wasn't sure i understood the store. However, this book is a wonderful representation of the style of GGM. Even if you can't fully understand the language, he hooks you in, wi...

from sistersticks

This book is one to read if you're a Gabriel Garcia Marquez fan, but if you're new to his writing I wouldn't start here. I'd start with 100 Years of Solitude or Love in the Time of Cholera. The writing is fantastic and florid as you'd expect. I liked it, but felt like I'd eaten something rich but...

from defrog

His latest novel, and at 103 pages a short one. Typically for him, it's a romance with a weird twist (90-year old man falls for 14-year-old prostitute who just sleeps beside him) as well as a rumination on old age. Not normally what I'm into, but Garcia Marquez has a magical way with language tha...

from dele2451

An casual glance at the subject matter of this novella could lead readers unacquainted with Marquez' work to deduce this was a cheap, tawdry piece but nothing could be farther from reality. Heartbreaking but hopeful, unflinchingly harsh but beautifully sentimental, and oddly sexual without all th...

from ZaraAlexis

Don't be misled by the number of pages---though it's a short book, its rich with tormented love, drama, and passion. The character, himself, is multi-layered, driven by nostalgia, grand dignity, indulgence and denial, lust, illusion, love, repression and longing, desire, and regret. The writing h...