Of Love and Other Demons - Softcover

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014024669X ISBN 13: 9780140246698

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims – until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Marķa, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive.

Sierva Marķa appears completely unscathed – but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it’s not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town’s woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcising the evil spirit recognizes the girl’s sanity, but can he convince the town that it’s not her that needs healing?

About this title

Review:

Brilliantly moving. A tour de force (A.S. Byatt)

Book Description:

This bitter, powerfully moving love story carefully recreating colonial mores in the tropics is Marquez back as the master-fabulist.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 014024669X
• ISBN 13: 9780140246698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176