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'García Márquez tells a story of forbidden love, but he
demonstrates once again the vigor of his own passion: the daring
and irresistible coupling of history and imagination' — Time
In the slave market in a tropical Colombian seaport, venturing to buy a
string of bells, the Marquis's twelve-year-old daughter, Sierva Maria, is
bitten by a rabid dog. 'No medicine cures what happiness cannot,' the wily
physician Abrenuncio advises her father. García Márquez's magical novel
of doomed love tells of Sierva Maria's incarceration in the convent of
Santa Clara where Cayetano Delaura, the young priest sent to exorcize
the virulent demon of her sickness, falls in love with her.
'At once nostalgic and satiric, a resplendent fable and a sombre parable,
Of Love and Other Demons is a further marvellous manifestation of the
enchantment and the disenchantment that his native Colombia always
stirs in García Márquez' — Sunday Times
'As enchanting as anything Márquez has ever written' —...
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Fülszöveg
'García Márquez tells a story of forbidden love, but he
demonstrates once again the vigor of his own passion: the daring
and irresistible coupling of history and imagination' — Time
In the slave market in a tropical Colombian seaport, venturing to buy a
string of bells, the Marquis's twelve-year-old daughter, Sierva Maria, is
bitten by a rabid dog. 'No medicine cures what happiness cannot,' the wily
physician Abrenuncio advises her father. García Márquez's magical novel
of doomed love tells of Sierva Maria's incarceration in the convent of
Santa Clara where Cayetano Delaura, the young priest sent to exorcize
the virulent demon of her sickness, falls in love with her.
'At once nostalgic and satiric, a resplendent fable and a sombre parable,
Of Love and Other Demons is a further marvellous manifestation of the
enchantment and the disenchantment that his native Colombia always
stirs in García Márquez' — Sunday Times
'As enchanting as anything Márquez has ever written' — Observer
'Tragi-comic, acerbic, supernatural and mysterious the book is
pleasurable on many levels superb and intensely readable' — Time Out
'No lover of fiction can fail to respond to the grace of Márquez's writing,
splendidly translated by Edith Grossman' — Sunday Telegraph
'Brilliantly moving' — The New York Times Book Review
Cover illustration by Mark Entwistie
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