Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Age has not diminished Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude. His most recent novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is slight in physical stature only because of the remarkable compression of style Marquez has achieved. It is his first novel in 10 years not because he has retired but because he has been apparently working on a screenplay of his epic One Hundred Years and fighting lymphatic cancer, which is bound to distract anyone.