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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.

13 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...

The Book of Human Skin

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The book of human skin is a large volume with many pages of villainy writ upon it. There are people... Read more

    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 20/06/2011
    ISBN13: 9781408809648, 978-1408809648
    ISBN10: 1408809648

    Number of Pages: 512

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    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.

    13 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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