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On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth. To one is born a healthy girl, Henriette, to the other, what can only be described as a monster: a boy, Hercules, deaf-mute and hideously deformed, and with the power to read minds. This is a picaresque fable of the love that grows between Hercules and Henriette during their childhood, and which will entwine their fates for ever. Vallgren paints a cast of grotesques in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe: the swags and tails of the bordello, where Hercules is born; the phantasmagoria of the freak show, with which he travels; the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries, in which he finds both shelter and peril; the squalor of the asylum, where he finds only pain. The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot tells of social oppression, official corruption and religious persecution, but is, at its heart, a love story
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The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, Carl Johan Vallgren
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- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- Titolo
- The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Carl Johan Vallgren
- Editore
- Vintage
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1843431513
- ISBN13
- 9781843431510
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Fantasy, Prosa storica, Avventura, Amore, Relazioni, Regali per il nonno, Bambini, Vita, XIX Secolo, Medioevo, Vendetta, Letteratura nordica, Destino, Svezia, Chiesa, Città, Vienna, Letteratura svedese, Parto, Case di tolleranza
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2002
- Titolo originale
- Vidunderliga kärlekens historia
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth. To one is born a healthy girl, Henriette, to the other, what can only be described as a monster: a boy, Hercules, deaf-mute and hideously deformed, and with the power to read minds. This is a picaresque fable of the love that grows between Hercules and Henriette during their childhood, and which will entwine their fates for ever. Vallgren paints a cast of grotesques in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe: the swags and tails of the bordello, where Hercules is born; the phantasmagoria of the freak show, with which he travels; the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries, in which he finds both shelter and peril; the squalor of the asylum, where he finds only pain. The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot tells of social oppression, official corruption and religious persecution, but is, at its heart, a love story