Of Love and Other Demons: A Novel
written by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

Written in fairy tale-like prose, Márquez weaves an enchanted, bittersweet story of love, abandonment, demons and angels. An unlikely union of the heart is created between an eccentric young girl with an unruly mane of copper hair and the humble and awkward priest sent to oversee her exorcism.

"An 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, over-turned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path. Three of them were black slaves. The fourth, Sierva María 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..."

ZT8539    Of Love and Other Demons: A Novel                     $12.95

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