García Márquez returns with his first book in over a decade, now distributed in English a year after its initial release. Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a slim novella about an unnamed journalist who reflects on his life and all the women he has slept with, losing count after 514 at age 50. Having never loved, the journalist decides that on his 90th birthday, he will gift himself with a night spent in the arms of an adolescent virgin. However, age and an unexpected blossoming love for a 14-year-old girl he has never spoken to or even seen awake disrupts his plans. This story is a charming, aimless story that saunters through beautiful imagery and eloquence while boldy touching upon univeral concepts of life, love, death, and loss.

Read an article in The Guardian about this book here.