num_pages: 176
description: 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. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love, and it isn't long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery.Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.
language: English
title: Of Love and Other Demons
titlecomplete: Of Love and Other Demons
characters: Sierva María, Bernarda Cabrera, don Ignacio, don Toribio de Cáceres y Virtudes, Abrenuncio, Dulce Olivia, Martina Laborde, Cayetano Delaura, Josefa Miranda
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Latin American, Classics, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 72850
places: Colombia
publisher: Penguin Books