Title: Of Love and Other Demons
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Release Date: 1994
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Book Description: 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.
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Author Bio:
Gabriel José de la Concordia
García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer,
screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo"
in his native country, was considered one of the most significant
authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature.
He studied at the University of Bogotá and late worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador
and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and
New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories,
but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude
(1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved
significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most
notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism,
which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real
experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called
Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
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