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Published in English 2005 Page count 128 | 3.6/5 Goodreads Publication date 2004 Originally published 2004 Genre Novel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Original title Memoria de mis putas tristes Publisher Editorial Norma (Colombia)Alfred A. Knopf (US) Similar Gabriel García Márquez books, Prostitution books, Novels | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Spanish: Memoria de mis putas tristes) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
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Plot
An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family. Instead of sex, he discovers love for the first time in his life.
Adaptation
In 2012, a joint film production of the novel by Spain, Denmark and Mexico was released by Danish film director, Henning Carlsen, and starring Emilio Echevarría, Olivia Molina, Ángela Molina and Geraldine Chaplin. The film received the Special Young Jury Prize at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival.
Banning
A Persian edition of Memories of My Melancholy Whores was published in Iran in October 2007, under the title Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts. The first edition of 5,000 sold out within three weeks of publication, after which it was banned, after the Ministry of Culture received complaints from conservatives who believed the novel was promoting prostitution.