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Do Amor e Outros Demonios (Of Love and Other Demons) (Brazilian Portuguese Edition)
Do Amor e Outros Demonios - Of Love and Other Demons - Brazilian Portuguese Edition Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Moacir Werneck de Castro (Translator) Portuguese translation of Del Amor y Otros Demonios. — «No terceiro nicho do altar-mor, do lado do Evangelho, estava a notícia. A lápide saltou em pedaços à primeira pancada do alvião e uma cabeleira viva, de uma intensa cor de cobre, espalhou-se pela cripta. O mestre-de-obras quis retirá-la complet... more »a com o auxílio dos seus operários, mas quanto mais puxavam mais comprida e abundante ia surgindo, até saírem as últimas madeixas, ainda presas a um crânio de criança. No nicho não ficaram senão uns ossitos pequenos e dispersos e na lápide de cantaria carcomida pelo salitre apenas era legível um nome sem apelidos: Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles. Estendida no chão, a esplêndida cabeleira media vinte e dois metros e onze centímetros.»
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.« less