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The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred
Carl-Johan Vallgren
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Paperback. 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. Translator(s): Austin, Paul Britten. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
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.
As he tells the story of Hercules' bizarre and colourful life, which leads him from the bordello of his birth to a travelling freak show and then a Jesuit monastery and an asylum, Vallgren paints a magical picture of nineteenth-century Europe. This picaresque fable is filled with ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099464396
SKU
KSH0000007
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Ref
99-1
About Carl-Johan Vallgren
CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN was born in 1964. He is the author of eight novels, of which The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot...was the first novel to be appear in English. His work has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in Stockholm.
Reviews for The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and his Terrible Hatred
The story has an obsessive drive
Christopher Priest
Guardian
A Perfume for a new generation. Vallgren conveys readers through [Hercule and Henriette's] wonderful love as well as their terrible hatred with equal relish and aplomb. Tremendous
Time Out
Challenging and shocking
Guardian
The new cult read
Vogue
Vallgren's Gothic parable, rich ... Read more
Christopher Priest
Guardian
A Perfume for a new generation. Vallgren conveys readers through [Hercule and Henriette's] wonderful love as well as their terrible hatred with equal relish and aplomb. Tremendous
Time Out
Challenging and shocking
Guardian
The new cult read
Vogue
Vallgren's Gothic parable, rich ... Read more