by Gabriel García Márquez · LITERATURA RANDOM HOUSE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439704539
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«Del amor y otros demonios» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Literatura Random House in paperback (190 pages, in Spanish).
The story takes place in an eighteenth-century South American colonial city: Sierva María, a twelve-year-old girl, is bitten by a rabid dog. Fear that she is possessed confines her to a convent, where Father Cayetano Delaura begins a forbidden relationship; love, faith and superstition mix in an oppressive environment.
Originally published in 1994, it is inspired by a real event the author witnessed in 1949: the exhumation of a girl's remains in a convent.
For readers of magical realism and Latin American narrative, with a story of love and superstition set in the colonial era.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
