Ebook {Epub PDF} Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez

 · Of Love and Other Demons is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in In the prologue, Garcia Marquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his Grandmother as a child; of a 12 year-old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a 'miracle-worker', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death. Gabriel García Márquez. Penguin Books, - Fiction - pages. 10 Reviews. Of Love and Other Demons is set in a South American seaport in the colonial era, a time of viceroys and bishops, 4/5(10). About Of Love and Other Demons. 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 bltadwin.ru:

Gabriel Garcia-Marquez captures this dichotomy in his novel Of Love and Other Demons. The novel tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl, Sierva Maria, who is bitten by a rabid dog. She does not develop rabies, but her father, Marquis de Casalduero, in utter desperation seeks the counsel of healers and physicians, who in turn worsen her. Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. 'An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December'. by Gabriel García Márquez Of Love and Other Demons is set in a South American seaport in the colonial era, a time of viceroys and bishops, enlightened men and Inquisitors, saints and lepers and pirates. Sierva Maria, only child of a decaying noble family, has been raised in the slaves' courtyard of her father's cobwebbed mansion while her.

Free download or read online Of Love and Other Demons pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, magical realism story are Sierva Maria, Cayetano Delaura. The book. Of Love and Other Demons is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in In the prologue, Garcia Marquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his Grandmother as a child; of a 12 year-old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a 'miracle-worker', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death. I guess it goes without saying that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a modern master and Of Love And Other Demons () reflects this mastery. It reads like a classic, it is a story of love, faith, ignorance, and reflects the history of the new world in the shadow of Europe.