Del Amor y Otros Demonios

Name: Karol J. Aguirre-Bedoya

Title: Del Amor y Otros Demonios (Of Love and Other Demons)

Country: Colombia

Language: Spanish

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Year: 1994

SUMMARY:

OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS is a book talks about Maria, a teenager girl with long and red hair who is Marques’s daughter. Maria spends all her life surrounded by slaves because she did not get attention from her parents. Therefore, for that reason, Maria learned slave’s traditions. One day she was at the square and a dog bit her. After that, she had different behaviors. She had to face different procedures in her life until she met and fell in love with an old priest. Finally, Maria’s father knew about the romance between the priest and her; he did everything to keep them separated. At the end, she died because of love.

RECOMMENDATION:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. In 2008, the opera Love and Other Demons, by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös was premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival.

This book was interesting to me, but I was expecting something different like a romance between a young couple. However, OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS, demonstrated how strong a love can be between two people without any importance of their age, social status or circumstances.