Gabriel Garcia Marquez outwits Pirates
Sunday October 24, 2004
In a swift move to outwit those who would profit from pirating his new novel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has altered the final chapter of the book and pushed forward the publication date.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, long-awaited by Garcia Marquez fans, tells the story of an old man remembering the women in his life while making love for the last time. It was released on Friday in his native Colombia after pirates flooded the country with half-price bootlegs of the book. Garcia Marquez is known largely for his most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
The English-language version of Memories of My Melancholy Whores has yet to be published.
More on Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, long-awaited by Garcia Marquez fans, tells the story of an old man remembering the women in his life while making love for the last time. It was released on Friday in his native Colombia after pirates flooded the country with half-price bootlegs of the book. Garcia Marquez is known largely for his most famous novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
The English-language version of Memories of My Melancholy Whores has yet to be published.
More on Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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