Memories of My Melancholy…Whore?
According to CNN:
The Iranian government has made the decision to forbid the second printing of a Farsi translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel.
The novel by the famed Latin American writer, which was translated into Farsi, received many complaints from conservatives who believed the novel was promoting prostitution.
The ban has provoked a greater interested in the novel, and on Saturday, the black market was selling copies of the book at more than twice their list price.
The novel, actually titled “Memories of My Melancholy Whores� was translated into Farsi as “Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts,� tells the story of an elderly man who decides to forgo his habit of using prostitutes on his 90th birthday by sleeping with a 14-year-old virgin, and ends up falling in love with the young girl.
Officials at Niloofar Publications, which published the first edition of the novel, confirmed Saturday that they have been forbidden to put out the second edition.
Since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005, Iran has tightened censorshop of books, films and music.