Of Love and Other Demons av Gabriel García Márquez

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<p>Nobel Prize winner and author of <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i> and<i> Love in the Time of Cholera</i>, Gabriel Garc¿M¿uez blends the natural with supernatural in <i>Of Love and Other Demons</i> - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria. <br><br><b>''An ash-grey dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst on to the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December''</b><br><br>When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero''s doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Mar¿ was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive.<br><br>Sierva Mar¿appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it''s not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin t