Of Love and Other Demons

Name: Of Love and Other Demons
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 9780140246698

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

27/06/1996
Penguin Books Ltd

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Of Love and Other Demons par Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Résumé

When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims – until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva María, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva María appears completely unscathed – but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it’s not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town’s woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcising the evil spirit recognizes the girl’s sanity, but can he convince the town that it’s not her that needs healing?