Of Love and Other Demons

About “Of Love and Other Demons”

A novel by Gabriel García Márquez set in a South American seaport during the colonial era. Sierva Maria, raised in her father's slaves' courtyard, is bitten by a rabid dog and later believed possessed; sent to a convent, she is tended by Father Cayetano Delaura, who falls into a love he calls the most terrible demon of all.