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20/10/2004
Garcia Marquez launches new book early
The launch of the Spanish-language version of the book, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," was brought forward by a week because pirate copies have begun appearing on the streets of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' native Colombia.
The pirate copies are not the same as the final version of the book, 77-year-old Garcia Marquez's first novel in 10 years, editor Braulio Peralta said. Gabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on book pirates by finely tuning the ending of his latest novel.
"Check the pirate version that is coming out in Colombia compared to the legal version being launched today. All I'm saying is that Gabriel Garcia Marquez changed the last chapter," Peralta told journalists.
Colombian police seized thousands of cheap pirate versions of the book published before the Nobel prize winner made his final touches for artistic reasons, he said.
'Memories of My Melancholy Whores' tells the story of a 90-year-old Colombian man in the 1950s who dwells on his memories of former loves.
Author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera," Marquez made the "magic realism" style of Latin American fiction famous and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982.
The English-language version of his latest book has yet to be published.
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