On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria β the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport β is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dre
Of Love and Other Demons
β Scribed by Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0241968747
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β¦ Synopsis
In 1949 Garcia Marquez witnessed the opening of several tombs, one of which contained the skeleton of a young girl with 22 metres of red hair. This novel recreates her legend as a popular saint. Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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