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Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
3.0

With echoes of Sleeping Beauty and The Fountain of Youth, Márquez’s final novella is a moving meditation—like a fairytale—on age and beauty.

But be warned, looking at this through the fantastical lens of magical realism is key: on a literal level, the content of this book is unacceptable.