![]() ![]() Nobel Prize winner Garcia Marquez writes with his usual inventiveness,… ( tovább) ![]() Having been raised by the family's slaves, she knows their languages and wears their Santeria necklaces she is perceived by the effete European Americans around her as „not of this world.” Only the priest who has reluctantly accepted the job as her exorcist believes she is neither sick nor possessed but terrified after being inexplicably „interred alive” among the superstitious nuns. ![]() In fact, Sierva Maria has shown no signs of being infected by rabies or by demons she is simply being punished for being different. Her father, who has shown no interest in the child, begins a crusade to save her life, eventually committing her to the Convent of Santa Clara when the bishop persuades him that his daughter is possessed by demons. In a Latin American port city during colonial times, a young girl named Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles?the only child of the ineffectual Marquis de Casalduero?is bitten by a rabid dog. ![]()
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