Of Love and Other Demons

New York: Knopf, 1995. First American edition. Octavo in blue-red multicolored DJ, 147 pages; 24 cm. Extremely mild rubbing to spine foot, extremely gentle rubbing to corners, extremely light soiling to DJ, very faint spotting to top fore-edge, bright pages in tight binding, extremely faint soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(-) in Near Fine(+) DJ. Hardcover. ISBN: 067943853X

Demoniac possession -- Fiction. In colonial South America, the doomed love of a 12-year-old girl and a priest thrice her age sent to exorcise her. She is a nobleman's daughter who has been bitten by a rabid dog. The authorities decide she is possessed by the devil and lock her up in a convent. By the author of Love in the Time of Cholera. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.