"Unforgettable. . . . Classic Márquez. " -The Washington Post"García Marquez has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light." -John Updike, The New Yorker"Luminous. . . . The cunning of Memories lies in the utter-and utterly unexpected– reliability of its narrator" -The New York Times Book Review he cunning of Memories of My Melancholy Whores lies in the utter–and utterly unexpected–reliability of its narrator."Masterful. Erotic. As hypnotizing as it is disturbing." -Los Angeles Times"As accomplished a piece of storytelling as you are likely to find on the shelves today."-Chicago Tribune"Profoundly haunting. . . . Fiction of the very highest order." -The Times Literary Supplement