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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Carl-Johan Vallgren
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2005
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 384
- ISBN10
- 1843431513
- ISBN13
- 9781843431510
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Fantasy, Historische Romane, Abenteuer, Liebe, Beziehungen, Kinder, Geschenke für Opa, 19. Jahrhundert, Mittelalter, Leben, Nordische Literatur, Rache, Kirche, Schicksal, Schweden, Städte, Schwedische Literatur, Wien, Geburt, Bordelle
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2002
- Originaltitel
- Vidunderliga kärlekens historia
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- Beschreibung
- 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