Of Love and Other Demons
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4.3 • 61 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK!
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love – and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.
Customer Reviews
Incredible
I finally took the opportunity to return to Garcia Marquez, 10 years after reading his most popular two books in college, and expected, now much more defeated and less enamored by love, that I had idealized his stories back then because they came along at the perfect time in my life. Instead, I rediscovered my favorite author and felt more at home among his sprawling worlds than I have at any time since those days a decade ago.