Of love and other demons

Name: Of love and other demons
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Autor: Gabriel García Márquez

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A book about the desire that chooses passions and reaches the deepest roots of the human being: love.

In 1949, the historic Santa Clara convent was to be sold for the construction of a five-star hotel. And Gabriel García Márquez, a young reporter, was assigned to oversee the removal of the chapel's burial crypts.

What struck this Colombian man most was the tomb of a young girl, which reminded him of the legends his grandmother had told him. According to her, in the Caribbean, there was a little marquise who had "hair that trailed like the train of a wedding dress." Revered for her miracles, she was bitten by a dog and died of rabies. Could that little marquise from his childhood be buried there?

García Márquez tells the story of the only daughter of a marquis, raised among slaves and orishas, and a priest tasked with exorcising the demons believed to have possessed the little girl, whose hair would only be cut at her wedding.

"Of Love and Other Demons" thus stems from an inspiration nearly half a century old. But its story goes further. García Márquez travels to Colombia, still a Spanish colony, to compose a love story shrouded in mystery, sorcery, and witchcraft, culminating in a trial initiated by the Inquisition. Once again, a theme immortalized in world literature—one of the desires that determines passions and reaches the deepest roots of human beings: love.

A tender evocation of a colonial past that poignantly amplifies the loneliness of an era and its people, this is Of Love and Other Demons . By uniting the young Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles and Father Cayetano Delaura in moments of tender stillness and ardent voluptuousness, the master of magical realism creates a story with the power and poignancy of a modern-day drama.

ISBN	978-850-104-228-6
Tradutor	Moacir Werneck de Castro
Altura	210 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	10 mm
Lançamento	10/08/1994
Páginas	192

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), também conhecido como Gabo, nasceu na aldeia de Aracataca nas imediações de Barranquilla, Colômbia. Começou seu trabalho de jornalista em 1949, atuando em diversos jornais e cidades, inclusive como correspondente internacional em Nova York para o jornal El Espectador. Posteriormente, sua obra jornalística foi compilada e publicada em 5 volumes. Mas foi na ficção que alcançou reconhecimento internacional, sendo autor de alguns dos maiores romances do século XX e considerado mestre do realismo mágico latino-americano. Em 1982, recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura pelo conjunto de sua obra. Entre suas principais obras estão Cem anos de solidão, O amor nos tempos de cólera, Crônica de uma morte anunciada, Notícia de um sequestro e Memória de minhas putas tristes.