Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

Of Love and Other Demons

ISBN: 067943853X
New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. "From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and 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. On her twelfth birthday the girl is bitten by a rabid dog, and even as the wound is healing she is made to endure therapies indistinguishable from tortures. Believed, finally, to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, the Bishop's protege, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train; who is already moved by this kicking, spitting, emaciated creature strapped to the stone bed." (from front flap) The thirteenth novel to be translated into English (by the late venerable Edith Grossman) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), the Nobel Prize-winning canonical Colombian author who famously invented & popularized the style of "Magic Realism" in his many classic novels & stories. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $21 price printed at front flap, "5/95" at rear flap), "First American Edition" as stated at copyright page, first printing though not specified as such thereon per custom of this publisher. From the collection of George Bornstein (1941-2021), an esteemed author, scholar & academician here at the University of Michigan- a quintessential Man of Letters who was a dearly missed friend of this writer. An exemplary later Garcia Marquez collectible in its rarest contemporary American English-language form; with highly distinguished, relevant provenance. Book in relatively quite very fine condition with only mild-to-moderate fading to edges & corners of purple-cloth front, back covers & spine; otherwise appearing substantially mint inside & out. Dust jacket fine-to-very-fine with light rubbing, mostly faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; a touch of wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same & flaps; a hint of age-toning at flaps; small oblong sticker of the late legendary Borders Bookshop (founded & with its flagship store once here in Ann Arbor) affixed over barcode at lower right area of back cover. Very Fine / Fine-Very Fine. [Item #9409]

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