| Author | : Michelle Lovric |
| File Size | : 52,6 Mb |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 05 April 2010 |
| ISBN | : 9781408811238 |
| Pages | : 703 pages |
The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric Book PDF Summary
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...