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Zusatztext “A brilliantly moving tour de force.” —A.S. Byatt! The New York Times Book Review “A work of considerable beguilement and edge. . . . García Márquez retains a vital and remarkable voice! and the pen of an angel.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review “Captivating. . . . Evokes the texture of a civilization! while its emotional range! from the comic to the mystical! exhibits a reach rarely found in fictions on a larger scale.” — The Boston Globe “Luminous. . . . Demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers.” — The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude , Love In The Time Cholera , The Autumn Of The Patriarch , The General In His Labyrinth , and News Of A Kidnapping . He died in 2014. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time. Klappentext 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 observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura! who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils! Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love - and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible! Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative! majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man. ONEAN ASH-GRAY DOG with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path. Three of them were black slaves. The fourth, Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles, the only child of the Marquis de Casalduero, had come there with a mulatta servant to buy a string of bells for the celebration of her twelfth birthday.They had been instructed not to go beyond the Arcade of the Merchants, but the maid ventured as far as the drawbridge in the slum of Getsemani, attracted by the crowd at the slavers' port where a shipment of blacks from Guinea was being sold at a discount. For the past week a ship belonging to the Compania Gaditana de Negros had been awaited with dismay because of an unexplainable series of deaths on board. In an attempt at concealment, the unweighted corpses were thrown into the water. The tide brought them to the surface and washed the bodies, disfigured by swelling and a strange magenta coloring, up on the beach. The vessel lay anchored outside the bay, for everyone feared an outbreak of some African plague, until it was verified that the cause of death was food poisoning.At the time the dog ran through the market, the surviving cargo had already been sold at reduced prices on account of poor health, and the owners were attempting to compensate for the loss with a single article worth all the rest: an Abyssinian female almost two meters tall, who was smeared with cane molasses instead of the usual commercial oil, and whose beauty was so unsettling it seemed untrue. She had a slender nose, a rounded skull, slanted eyes, all her teeth, and the equivocal bearing of a Roman gladiator. She had not been branded in the slave pen, and they did not call out her age and the state of her health. Instead, she was put on sale for the simple fact of her beauty. The price the Governor paid, without bargaining and in cash, was her weight in gold.It was a common occurre...
