Nobel Prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garc-M-uez blends the natural with supernatural in Of Love and Other Demons - a novel which explores community, superstition and collective hysteria.
''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''
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.
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
