Of Love and Other Demons

By Gabriel García Márquez

In an eighteenth-century Caribbean port, the twelve-year-old daughter of a decayed marquis is bitten by a rabid dog. She does not sicken, but the city decides she is possessed and the convent takes her. The priest sent to exorcise her, Father Cayetano Delaura, falls in love instead. Short, precise and merciless about the violence that religion and class can do while believing themselves kind.

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