{"product_id":"memories-of-my-melancholy-whores-9781400095940","title":"Memories of My Melancholy Whores","description":"A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTender, knowing, and slyly comic, \u003ci\u003eMemories of My Melancholy Whores\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite addition to the master's work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiving to Tell the Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, among other works of fiction and nonfiction. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725372690706,"sku":"9781400095940","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f98668dc-6791-489d-a31e-35abd7caeaf8.jpg?v=1734828677","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memories-of-my-melancholy-whores-9781400095940","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}