The Anatomist's Dream - Brossura

Clio Gray

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1910183237 ISBN 13: 9781910183236

Casa editrice: Myrmidon Books Ltd, 2016

Riassunto

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The Anatomist s Dream is a sumptuous feast for the senses that chronicles the early life of a very special boy as he makes a fantastic and epic journey with a travelling carnival across the dark and troubled landscape of 1840s Germany.

In a small salt-mining town, Philbert is born with a taupe , a disfiguring inflammation of the skull. Abandoned by both parents and with only a pet pig for company, he eventually finds refuge and companionship in a travelling carnival, Maulwerf s Fair of Wonders, as it makes its annual migration across Germany bringing entertainment to a people beset by famine, repression and revolutionary ferment.

Philbert soon finds a caring family in Hermann the Fish Man, Lita, the Dancing Dwarf, Frau Fettleheim, the Fattest Woman in the World and an assortment of freak show artists, magicians and entertainers.

But then Philbert meets Kwert, Tospirologist and Teller of Signs , and when he persuades the boy to undergo examination by the renowned physician and craniometrist, Dr Ullendorf, both Kwert and Philbert embark on an altogether darker and more perilous journey that will have far-reaching consequences for a whole nation.

Something to be savoured by fans of Mervyn Peake s Gormenghast trilogy, Erin Morgenstern s The Night Circus or Patrick Süskind s Perfume: the Story of a Murderer.

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L'autore:

Clio Gray was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Yorkshire but has spent the last twenty years in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands where she works as a librarian in the small market town of Tain. In 2004 she won the Harry Bowling First Novel Award and this led to the successful Stroop series of crime novels set in the Napoleonic Wars and published by Headline. She also won the Scotsman / Orange Award in 2006 for her short story I Should Have Listened Harder and has maintained a keen interest in short stories ever since.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Myrmidon Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910183237
• ISBN 13: 9781910183236
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480