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Used Book, "Love and Other Demons" [Like New]
Used Book, "Love and Other Demons" [Like New]
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Father Delaura had a strange dream: a girl with hair touching the ground sat in front of a timeless window, eating grapes. Outside, a snow-covered field stretched endlessly. Each grape she ate was instantly replaced by a new one on the bunch.
He was sent to the Santa Clara Convent to exorcise a girl who had been bitten on the ankle by a mad dog on the eve of her twelfth birthday.
Stepping into the convent, the priest was stunned: the girl was identical to the one in his dream, eating grapes!
In that dark, dilapidated cell, they fell madly in love.
★ Everything is connected to love, dedicated to those immersed in tears.
★ What is love? In "Love in the Time of Cholera," it is a disease; in "Of Love and Other Demons," it is a raging demon.
"Of Love and Other Demons" is Márquez's last full-length novel, and like "Love in the Time of Cholera," it is one of his most popular works among readers.
★ In terms of writing style, its magical realism rivals the charm of "One Hundred Years of Solitude." The story revolves around four or five characters, with the love between a twelve-year-old girl and a middle-aged priest as the main thread. The magic is still magical, and reality is even more real.
★ During those days, the girl asked him if love truly conquered all, as sung in songs.
"Yes," he replied, "but you'd better not believe it."
About the Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Born in Aracataca, a coastal town in Magdalena, Colombia, in 1927. He spent his childhood with his maternal grandparents. In 1936, he moved with his parents to Sucre. In 1947, he enrolled in the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. In 1948, he dropped out due to civil war and entered journalism. He began publishing literary works in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he moved to Mexico. In 1967, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was published. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994, "Of Love and Other Demons" was published. He passed away in Mexico on April 17, 2014.