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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 Vallgren
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- Rok vydání
- 2005
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- Titul
- The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Carl Vallgren
- Vydavatel
- Vintage
- Rok vydání
- 2005
- Vazba
- pevná
- Počet stran
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1843431513
- ISBN13
- 9781843431510
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Fantasy, Historické romány, Dobrodružství, Láska, Vztahy, Děti, Dárky pro dědu, 19. století, Středověk, Život, Severská literatura, Pomsta, Církev, Osud, Švédsko, Města, Švédská literatura, Vídeň, Porod, Nevěstince
- První vydání
- 2002
- Původní název
- Vidunderliga kärlekens historia
- Hodnocení
- 3,7 z 5
- Anotace
- 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