Memories of My Melancholy Whores
内容简介
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself a gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin' He has never married, never loved and never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay. But on finding a young girl naked and asleep on the brothel owner's bed, a passion is ignited in his heart - and he feels, for the first time, the urgent pangs of love. Each night, exhausted by her factory work, 'Delgadina' sleeps peacefully whilst he watches her quietly. During these solitary early hours, his love for her deepens and he finds himself reflecting on his newly found passion and the loveless life he has led. By day, his columns in the local newspaper are read avidly by those who recognise in his outpourings the enlivening and transformative power of love. The publication of "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" spearheads "Penguin's" celebration of Marquez's 80th birthday in 2007.
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作者简介
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and non-fiction. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the pre-eminent Spanish to English translator of our time.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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读书文摘
走到门口，一声可怖的雷鸣吓了我一跳，随后屋子里便弥漫起湿润泥土警示性的味道。我没有安全逃离的时间了。在找到出租车前，一场瓢泼大雨粗鲁地浇了下来，这样的雨通常会在五月到十月间把城市搅得一团乱，在街道上的炽热沙土会变成凶猛的洪流涌到河里，并把所到之处摧毁殆尽。在连续三个月的干旱之后，那个诡异九月的降雨既是上天的恩赐，又充满了毁灭性。
我们这一代人年轻的时候对生活都太贪婪，以致身体和灵魂都忘记了对未来的期盼，直到现实告诉我们未来和我们曾经的梦想不一样，便又开始怀念旧日。
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