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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
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2005
- Oprawa
- (twarda)
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- Tytuł
- The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Carl Johan Vallgren
- Wydawca
- Vintage
- Rok wydania
- 2005
- Oprawa
- twarda
- Liczba stron
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1843431513
- ISBN13
- 9781843431510
- Seria
- Tagi
- Przygodowe, Miłość, Relacje, Dzieci, Prezenty dla dziadka, XIX wiek, Średniowiecze, Życie, Zemsta, Literatura skandynawska, Los, Szwecja, Wiedeń, Kościół, Miasta, Literatura szwedzka, Poród, Domy publiczne
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 2002
- Oryginalna nazwa
- Vidunderliga kärlekens historia
- Ocena
- 3,7 z 5
- Opis
- 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