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Of Love and Other Demons

De: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrado por: Christopher Salazar
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On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-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 is not 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.

©1994 Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the heirs of Gabriel Garcia Marquez (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing Antologías y Cuentos Cortos Cuentos Cortos Estados Unidos Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Latinoamericano Literatura Mundial Realismo Mágico
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One of my favorite books. I think I’d like the Spanish version better, but it was interesting to hear it in English. I really enjoyed it.

Of Love and Other Demons

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"When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path which you have lead me. I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is by undoing and my end."
- Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

I bought 1st Edition Knopf version of this novel shortly after the Edith Grossman edition was translated and published in 1995 to give to my fiancé right before we graduated college. I had read Márquez's two masterpieces Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude a few years earlier, secretly, while my missionary companion slept in the other room. It, along with every other book that wasn't Mormon Scriptures was forbidden. But those rules were a bit loose, and I was looser with them than most. While in that town in Colorado I consumed Marquez, Mailer, DeLillo, and Bertrand Russell. But even with all of that preparation, it still took until today for me to read this book that sat on our communal bookshelf, more a symbol of our love than something we consumed. It sat there silent, virginal and unopened*.

Anyway, I loved it. Not as great as his BIG TWO, but I did waver on whether it should be 5 stars. I gave it 4, but with the option to change it at a later date. Like with love, stars can blink and equivocate. Back to Of Love and Other Demons: I think it should be made into a movie. Hell, I want an animated version that mixes the style of Disney's Sleeping Beauty with Henri Rousseau and the Cusco School.

Somebody with power and money should do it. That is all.

*Technically, it still sits there silent, virginal and unopened because I bought a paperback version to read (and this audible version to listen to), but that is just a trivial detail.

Love/Religion/Family: Making people nuts for years

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The story is beautiful, but the narrator ruined it unfortunately. Such a terrible performance. I wish I read this one instead of listening.

Read instead of listening

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It’s was tough to listen to because the reader would mispronounce all the Spanish names. The story was okay. Not one of my favorite books.

I struggled with the reader

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Well written but definitely invokes uncomfortable and hopeless feelings whilst reading about the death and loss of innocence of 12 year old Sierva Maria

Depressing story

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Hope to get a refund. This narrator is awwwwfullll. The last thing I need is to have to hear this guy's opinions on Gabriel Garcia Marquez' novel. And whyyyy does he leeeenthen his vowwwwels in a bad imitation of upper crust New England? Blech! Just awful.

Narrator makes this un-listenable.

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