by Gabriel García Márquez · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497592420
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«Del amor y otros demonios» is the magic realism novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Debolsillo in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
In a South American colonial city, young Sierva María is bitten by a rabid dog and suffers symptoms that those around her attribute to demonic possession. The priest sent to examine her is torn between his beliefs and the love she awakens in him, in a story of superstition, mystery and passion.
The novel belongs to the Contemporánea collection. García Márquez was inspired by the real discovery, in 1949, of the tomb of a girl in the Santa Clara convent during a report.
For readers of magic realism and Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel Prize winner, who seek a story of love and mystery in colonial America.
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.
