Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Now reading Gabriel García Márquez's latest literary masterpiece Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Nobel laureate Marquez writes about a nameless narrator, a newspaper columnist, that is about to hit his 90th birthday, and he knows exactly what he wants for it: "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." A constant customer all his life of various brothels around town, he has no trouble arranging for such a tryst. But it doesn't pan out as planned. He discovers love for the first time.

It's a short book (about 180 pages) and was translated from Spanish by acclaimed translator Edith Grossman. If this is García Márquez's last work of fiction (he's said to be working on the sequels to his memoir Living to Tell the Tale), it's a wonderful note to go out on.