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Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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34 Ratings

4

Duration
3H 18min
Language
English
Format
Category

Fiction

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 a master's work.

© 2013 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781483086842

Translators: Edith Grossman

Release date

Audiobook: October 15, 2013

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