Of Love And Other Demons - Hardcover

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039428108X ISBN 13: 9780394281087

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

Very Good/Very Good in Purple Cloth over Boards; 8vo; Hard Cover W/ Dust Jacket; 147 pages; Alfred A. Knopf; 1995: First American Edition; Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman; Minor shelf wear to boards; Text clean and unmarked; Minor shelf wear to DJ; DJ in archival mylar jacket.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera, a startling new novel -- the story of a doomed love affair between an unruly copper-haired girl and the bookish priest sent to oversee her exorcism.

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 mother succumbs to fermented honey and cacao on a faraway plantation. On her twelfth birthday the girl is bitten by a rabid dog, and even as the wound is healing she is made to endure therapies indistinguishable from tortures. Believed, finally, to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, the Bishop's protege, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train; who is already moved by this kicking, spitting, emaciated creature strapped to a stone bed. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels "something immense and irreparable" happening to him. It is love, "the most terrible demon of all." And it is not long before Sierra Maria joins him in his fevered misery.

Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons haunts us with its evocation of an exotic world while it treats, majestically the most universal experiences known to woman and man.

Natasha Richardson's film credits include Nell, Widow's Peak, The Comfort of Strangers, and The Handmaid's Tale. She has appeared on stage in Anna Christie, High Society, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among others.

About the Author:

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 near Aracataca, Colombia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, among other works of fiction and nonfiction. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 039428108X
• ISBN 13: 9780394281087
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160