Omar Shamali

Book Review: Of Love and Other Demons

Author: Omar Shamali
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What made this story “OK” is the atheist doctor, who is funny and slam facts into people’s faces.

I might understood why the mother hated her daughter, but didn't understand why also the father neglected her.

 Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez
1994
Paperback
147
3.85
1400034922
On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-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.