Of Love and Other Demons
Author(s): Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive.
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Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927- ) was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His most recent book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is his first new novel to be published in a decade and is available as a Penguin Paperback. He is the author of several novels, works of non-fiction and collections of short stories, including Leaf Storm (1955); One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967); The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981) and The General in His Labyrinth (1989). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.126
- : 01 June 1995
- : 197mm X 130mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- : Paperback
- : 863.64
- : 176
- : Historical fiction; Modern fiction