Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Spanish: Memoria de mis putas tristes) is a novella by Gabriel García Márquez.

An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a 14-year-old prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family.

[1] John Updike called the novel a "velvety pleasure to read, though somewhat disagreeable to contemplate", and wrote that García Márquez "has composed, with his usual sensual gravity and Olympian humor, a love letter to the dying light.

"[2] Terrence Rafferty, writing for the New York Times, praised Grossman's translation and García Márquez' narrative.

[3] Michiko Kakutani, also writing for the New York Times, gave a negative review to the novel, calling it a "halfhearted exercise in storytelling" and criticizing the narrative, protagonist, and ending as banal.