Of Love and Other Demons

Beautiful stories. If this is the sort of thing that appeals to you, that it. Marquez reminds me of the Portuguese writer, Jose Saramago -- is this just me?

The usual (better) spell-binding Gabo. A blind buy.

I'm not sure if I'll ever have the rights words to describe what I feel about this book. A twelve year old girl bit by a rabid dog is assumed to have rabies and possessed by demons. She is the daughter of a Marquis but raised by slaves, having no etiquette of the elite.Abandoned by her parents, this pure and beautiful girl is subjected to cruel exorcism to rid her off the demons that possses her. Except for her saviour, the priest appointed to deal with her case nobody believes her innocence, her truth. In a town deeply drowned with superstition, her days of solitude have the light of love only because of the priest's love for her. Their bond is sweet and heartwarming. Her life ends as she loses will to fight the extreme treatments and dies of "love".This is my first book by this author and I'm clearly new to the style of work. I'm having mixed emotions about it. I love how the narrative flows but I also feel the urge for something more, something deep from the book.

Hi friends,This is Gabo @gabrielgarciamarquez this time with his #magicalrealism.This is my second #gabo book after #100yearsofsolitude both published by #penginbooks..🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️.This book is about love which can sprout in most unpredictable circumstances and about love ve which can rot in a corner of neglected relationships..📕📕📕📕📕Marquez and his wife are in disillusionment about their aging marriage and right then to exacerbate their poor destiny a rabid dog bites their daughter Maria; who bears the burden of this small bite on ankle throughout the story...🧔🧔🧔🧔🧔..Burden is heavier than rabies. It is burden of dogma, taboo, demons, forced faith and unexpressed truths of human psyche..Story is written in his masterful, effortless prose.When he say someone walking in ankle deep sewer you can smell it and when he describes bones of oxen in front of rusty factory, you can imagine it; unbearably close..⛲⛲⛲⛲.Book is small, can be read in two days and a good one to converse with master writer who has won #nobelprize in literature..Finally bishop appoints able 36 years old priest to exort demons out of Maria...Garcia got inspiration for Story while he was covering as a journalist unearthing of few graves in church and in which was discovered a female skull with very long hair about four body lenghts of a normal girl..This started a great book..It also puts light on how uneducated may misinterpret #rabies...Role of books and #literature in life of characters is also depicted..

I am caught in a dilemma: should I say this is classic García Marquez and risk being considered a pedant, or rather call this an exotic work of imagination that excites the reader just as much as the author's rather significant oeuvre of work and possibly be considered a literary snob? But I think I'd be a bit of both and call this what it indeed is: a modern day classic in short prose that redefines the limits of characterisation each time it is read. Beautiful, poignant, exotic.