Michelle Lovric

The Book of Human Skin (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Book of Human Skin is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it.There are people who are a disease, you know. May, 1784, Venice: Minguillo Fasan, heir to the decaying, gothic Palazzo Espagnol, is born. Yet Minguillo is no ordinary child: he is strange, devious and all those who come near him are fearful. Twelve years later Minguillo is faced with an unexpected threat to his inheritance: a newborn sister, Marcella. His untempered jealousy will condemn his sister to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But in his insatiable quest to destroy her, he may have underestimated his sister's ferocious determination, and her unlikely allies who will go to extraordinary lengths to save her…

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408811238
• Artikelnr.: 38284053

Autorenporträt

Michelle Lovric is the author of five novels - Carnevale, The Floating Book (winner of a London Arts Award and chosen as a W H Smith Read of the Week) and The Remedy (longlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction) - as well as four children's novels, The Undrowned Child and The Mourning Emporium. She combines her fiction work with editing, designing and producing literary anthologies including her own translations of Latin and Italian poetry. Her book Love Letters was a New York Times bestseller. Lovric divides her time between London and Venice, and holds workshops in both places with published writers of poetry and prose, fiction and memoir.

www.michellelovric.com