Love and Death

No matter what García Márquez wrote about, he always wrote about one thing and, in essence, the main thing – love and death. And the stories that make up this collection are no exception. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold,... the protagonist dies the morning after his wedding night. About Love and Other Demons – a passionate tale of a priest's infatuation with a young aristocrat – a passion that neither prayer, nor fasting, nor the flames of a bonfire can dispel. And finally, in the third story, love arrives as an unexpected and undeserved gift at the end of a senselessly lived life. Love and death, like talented and experienced partners, lead their truly Latin American dance – desperate, dangerous, and passionate – from page to page of Márquez's tales.