The new García Márquez novel

Finally! It's here. The latest novel by Gabriel García Márquez, "A Memoir of My Sad Whores". It beginns like this: "For my 90th birthday, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of mad love with an adolescent virgin.” With such a promising start, and coming two years after the first volume of his memoirs, one might well have expected this book to be a semi-autobiographical accounting of a life spent in brothels. Plus: A review.