"Remarkable...a work of singular grace and poignancy. Like Lolita, which it resembles in a vari- ety of ways but owes no particular, debt to, Memories of My Melancholy Whores achieves its effects through its beauties of style and execution, rather than any sensationalism in its storytelling."

--Milwaukee Fournal Sentinel

"Masterful Memories of My Melancholy Whores is not a story about a man who finds Eros in the nick of time, but about how much sway the idea of it has over us, even at the end of our days."

--Houston Chronicle

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit--he has purchased hundreds of women--he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side,it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known.  Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master's work.