<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994 . </P> <P> In the prologue, García Márquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his grandmother as a child: of a 12 - year - old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a' miracle - worker', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death . In this frame - story, it was only after an excavation of tombs that García Márquez is witness to the grave of a similar young girl with long red hair still attached to the skull, that he was inspired to write Of Love and Other Demons . </P> <P> Mariana Solanet, however, in García Márquez for Beginners, states this source was invented . She points rather to a story in Daniel Lemaitre's History of Cartagena that García Márquez came across in research for Love in the Time of Cholera . </P>

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