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Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a poignant novella written by the Nobel Laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Summary of the Book In this powerful novel, a journalist wants to spend a wild night with an adolescent virgin on his ninetieth birthday. The young prostitute he meets is selling her virginity to help her family. But the old man falls deeply in love with her instead of indulging in sex, a feeling he has never felt in life before. So he feels that he must chronicle the redemptive powers of love and offer it freely to the world. About Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian writer of novels, short-stories, screenplays and journalistic columns. He is best remembered for: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. Marquez won much acclaim for his contribution to Colombian literature, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1972 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. His works were often based around a fictional village called Macondo and explore the themes of solitude and magic realism.