Of Love and Other Demons (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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For Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, existence is precarious from the very beginning. The only child of the funereal second Marquis de Casalduero, Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Dueñas, and his drug-dependent wife, Bernarda Cabrera, Sierva María is so puny at her premature birth that the African slave to whom she is later entrusted promises the Virgin Mary that if God permits her to live, the girl’s hair will not be cut until she marries. Abandoned thereafter to a half-savage upbringing while the listless marquis withdraws further from society, and his commoner wife finds solace in her...

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