Of Love and Other Demons
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Chaste love and dark faith in tropical 1700s.
If you're drawn to stories where passion and spirituality dance in a forbidden embrace, "Of Love and Other Demons" may find its way into your heart. Gabriel García Márquez invites you into a lush, South American world where the supernatural feels as real as the humid air. It's a tale of love entangled with cultural complexities; an enchanting read for those enamored with magical realism and thought-provoking narratives.
Of Love and Other Demons
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ISBN: 9780140256369
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1996-06-01
Format: Paperback
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Goodreads rating: 3.97
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"A brilliantly moving tour de force"--A. S. Byatt, The New York Times Book ReviewAmid the lush, coastal tropics of an eighteenth-century South American seaport, an unruly, copper-haired girl and a bookish priest are caught in a chaste, ill-fated love affair. Sierva Maria, the only child of a decaying noble family, has been raised in the slave quarters of her father's mansion while her mother resides on a faraway plantation. On her twelfth birthday she is bitten by a rabid dog, and even as the wound heals she is made to endure therapies indistinguishable from torture. Believed to be possessed, she is incarcerated in a convent, where she meets Father Cayetano Delaura, who has been sent to oversee her exorcism. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels "something immense and irreparable." It is love, "the most terrible demon of all.""A work of considerable beguilement and edge...García Márquez retains a vital and remarkable voice, and the pen of an angel."--Los Angeles Times Book Review"Captivating...Of Love and Other Demons evokes the texture of a civilization, while its emotional range, from the comic to the mystical, exhibits a reach rarely found in fictions on a larger scale."--The Boston Globe"Luminous...demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers."--The New York Times
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