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librosycafe25 's review for:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez
This novella opens with: “The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.”
This may sound off putting, but Marquez's emotive prose takes you on a journey into understanding an elderly journalist odd birthday wish.
His desire does not turn out as sexual as one may think, it's more of finding an emotional connection and love before he dies, something he has not had. In the process, there are many reflections about age, friendship, loneliness, and love.
The pace feels slow sometimes, but the eloquent writing keeps one reading.
This may sound off putting, but Marquez's emotive prose takes you on a journey into understanding an elderly journalist odd birthday wish.
His desire does not turn out as sexual as one may think, it's more of finding an emotional connection and love before he dies, something he has not had. In the process, there are many reflections about age, friendship, loneliness, and love.
The pace feels slow sometimes, but the eloquent writing keeps one reading.