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Of Love and Other Demons, written by the Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is the story of Sierva Maria and Father Cayetano Delaura – a story where madness and demonic control become beautiful metaphors of love. Summary of the Book Here is another keenly enchanting story written by the master storyteller. Sierva is bitten by a sick dog on her twelfth birthday. She is the only child of a highly respected family in an eighteenth-century South American coastal town. She is sent to a convent to be kept under observation as people believe she is possessed. And Father Cayetano Delaura, who had already seen a girl with long copper hair in his dreams, comes across the cell Sierva is locked up in. He begins to attend to her with holy water and other sacramental oils. But shockingly, he finds himself falling in love with her. Read this soul-stirring story in which Garcia Marques brings out the nuances of the deepest of human emotions. About Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian writer of novels, short-stories, screenplays and journalistic columns. He is best remembered for: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera. Marquez won much acclaim for his contribution to Colombian literature, including the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works were often based around a fictional village called Macondo and explore the themes of solitude and magic realism.