Of Love and Otherns

The book "Of Love and Otherns" — Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес

Of Love and Otherns. An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday of December...When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casaldueros doorstep prophesizing a plague of rabies in their Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Sierva Maria 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, its not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the towns woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcising the evil spirit recognizes the girls sanity, but can he convince the town that its not her that needs healing?

Сиерва Мария родилась в богатой аристократической семье и выросла в колониальном Картахене, воспитанная черными слугами-рабами. После укуса собаки у девочки развивается водобоязнь, что считалось несомненным признаком одержимости нечистой силой, и тринадцатилетнюю героиню помещают в монастырь. Спасать душу и тело девочки призван молодой отец Каэтано. Между ними возникает взаимная страсть — молодые люди оказывается под властью демона, который сильнее их веры и доводов разума.