false 760 50 On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work. 2166510 2004 Memories of My Melancholy Whores total:6659|5:1132|4:2231|3:2291|2:787|1:218| 6659 23249 9020 683 3 12 true false Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 18:40:29 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 10:33:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 6 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 05 09:28:12 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 09:35:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 4 false false Sun Nov 18 12:52:32 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 12:57:35 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 6 false false Sun Jan 27 21:34:35 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 27 21:34:54 -0800 2008
Chapter 1 in particular, when the narrator describes how upon turning 90 he decided he ...more...]]> 5 5 false false Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Dec 27 16:21:44 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 16:23:35 -0800 2007
A curious and lovely book

In the US, we understand sexy but we struggle with the erotic. We read the body like we read the newspaper, by habit; with a glance. Our real failure in love is our failure to take our time. It's not in our nature to wait...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 20 21:52:31 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 17 18:19:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 2 false false Thu Nov 22 06:29:26 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 22 06:29:26 -0800 2007 من یک سئوال دارم؟ چطور می شود به کسی که این پروفایل را درست کرده دست یافت؟
به این دلیل که خواهش کنیم از این به بعد طرح روی جلد کتاب‌ها را، نه فقط این کتاب را، بگذ�...more...]]> 3 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 13 22:35:49 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 22:45:08 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Dec 20 03:34:36 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 03:37:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 09:08:47 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 09:12:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Aug 10 21:38:19 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 21:40:42 -0700 2008 100 Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera) left me absolutely floored. His talent is prodigious and undeniable, and I fully expected this to be yet...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sun Nov 18 19:26:19 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 18 20:26:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Wed Sep 12 18:06:30 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 18:07:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 06:56:13 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 07:37:53 -0700 2007
I've read a few not so good reviews of this novella and they cannot be more wrong. Yes, Gabo's intrica...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon May 07 18:54:23 -0700 2007 Mon May 07 19:09:08 -0700 2007 I think the reason I couldn't g...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Aug 16 10:04:32 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 23:33:25 -0700 2008
i'd like to think i can enjoy fiction wri...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:47 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:47 -0800 2009 Garc"a M�_rquez (Living to Tell the Tale, ***1/2 Jan/Feb 2004; he was profiled in our Jan/Feb 2003 issue), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 for his classic One Hundred Years of Solitude, can, at this point, "publish anything he wants" (Houston Chronicle). That about sums...

more...]]> 3 3 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 20:55:38 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 16:29:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 14:36:39 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 14:52:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 14:58:05 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 15:40:57 -0700 2009
Given the premise, and the widely acknowledged brilliance of the author, I believe that I may have set my expectations a bit too high. Much of what m...more...]]>