Compelling and unforgettable, this remarkable, bittersweet story of a doomed Love affair set in the colonial era demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers (The New York Times).
Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man..
He has fallen in Love - and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery.
As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.
And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train.
Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation.
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog.
Amid the lush, coastal tropics of a South American seaport, an unruly, co pper-haired girl and a bookish priest are caught in a chaste, ill-fated Love affair.
Compelling and unforgettable, this remarkable, bittersweet story of a doomed Love affair set in the colonial era demonstrates that one of the masters of the form is still working at the height of his powers (The New York Times)
