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Fiction · 1995 · PG-13

Of Love and Other Demons

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A young girl bitten by a rabid dog — colonial cartagena, a priest, and obsessive love.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera, a startling new novel — the story of a doomed love affair between an unruly copper-haired girl and the bookish priest sent to oversee her exorcism. Of Love and Other Demons is set in a South American seaport in the colonial era, a time of viceroys and bishops, enlightened men and Inquisitors, saints and lepers and pirates. Sierva Maria, only child of a decaying noble family, has been raised in the slaves' courtyard of her father's cobwebbed mansion while her mother succumbs to fermented honey and cacao on a faraway plantation

For14+GenreFictionLength147 pagesRead time~4 hours

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Violence

Barely any

Colonial violence; a girl committed to a convent

Language

None

No profanity

Sexual Content

Some

A priest's obsessive love and sexual feelings for a young girl

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Themes of forbidden love, religious superstition, and colonial cruelty

What this book is about

Márquez's 1994 short novel is set in 18th-century Cartagena, where a young girl bitten by a dog is committed to a convent by her father. Features some sexual content and colonial violence. For adults.

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Age-inappropriate sexual obsession (priest for young girl)

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