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irá adorar Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Een oude man trakteert zichzelf voor zijn verjaardag op een jonge prostitué. Zij is echter zo vermoeid dat ze in slaap valt. Aan haar bed mijmert de oude man over zijn leven en zijn liefdes. Aangrijpend! (  ) boeklover | Nov 13, 2009 |  Historia de un día del protagonista, que cumplidos ya muchos años, pasa el día en un prostíbulo. (  ) juan1961 | Oct 25, 2009 | I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez but I have to admit I had my doubts about this book after reading the first line. "The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin." Immediately, I was repulsed and faced with the question, is my all time favorite author a dirty old pervert? And thankfully after finishing the book I can say with some degree of certainty, no, he is not. There is no magical realism in this book. Instead the reader finds a philosophical and charming tale about aging and love that only GMM could spin. The main character, a dirty old pervert (no doubt), is perplexed by finding himself madly in love at the age of 90 after a life time of empty affairs. The two main characters are nameless. The girl, the object of the old man's affection, is speechless throughout the story. The main character is in love, but not with the girl herself, rather the idea of the girl. She is perfect, but only in his mind. For that reason, the main character is constantly reminding the reader that he prefers the girl while she sleeps and he is afraid of ever knowing her real name or seeing her out in public when she isn't naked and sleeping. To him she is not a real person. This theme of strange irrational love flows throughout the book and makes the underlying truth of the story bearable to a modern reader - an impoverished 14 year-old girl is forced to pseudo-prostitute herself to this old man in order to help feed her family. This book is a literary gem for anyone who can put that point aside, doing so is well worth it. (  ) Pretear | Sep 28, 2009 | Excel.lent !! ( ) comervp | Sep 13, 2009 | An casual glance at the subject matter of this novella could lead readers unacquainted with Marquez' work to deduce this was a cheap, tawdry piece but nothing could be farther from reality. Heartbreaking but hopeful, unflinchingly harsh but beautifully sentimental, and oddly sexual without all the gritty details of actual consummation. Guaranteed to bring hope to anyone who is afraid they have missed the boat on finding love in their life, but worth the read for everybody else too. Bottom Line: It's lovely and unexpected from cover to cover - I definitely recommend it. (  ) dele2451 | Aug 26, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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The protagonist says of himself: "I have never gone to bed with a woman I didn't pay ... by the time I was fifty there were 514 women with whom I had been at least once ... My public life, on the other hand, was lacking in interest: both parents dead, a bachelor without a future, a mediocre journalist ... and a favorite of caricaturists because of my exemplary ugliness."
The girl is 14 and works all day in a factory attaching buttons in order to provide for her family. Rosa gives her a combination of bromide and valerian to drink to calm her nerves, and when the prospective lover arrives, she is sound asleep. Now the story really begins. The nonagenarian is not a sex-starved adventurer; he is a tender voyeur. Throughout his 90th year, he continues to meet the girl and watch her sleep. He says, "This was something new for me. I was ignorant of the arts of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark, so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were ... That night I discovered the improbably pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty."
Márquez's style never falters throughout this recounting of his life and his exploration of love, found at an unexpected time and place. The erstwhile lover is still capable of being surprised--and fulfilled. After an absence of ten years, it is a treat to have another parable from the master. --Valerie Ryan
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