Joy Sorman
Author
Language
Español
Description
Ninon Moise está maldita. Su madre Esther también, al igual que todas las primogénitas de su familia desde la Edad Media. Cada generación está marcada por una enfermedad, dolencia o achaque singulares: una de sus antepasadas fue la paciente cero de la peste danzante de Estrasburgo en el siglo XVI. Ninon ha crecido reconfortada y fascinada por esta fábula de extraños e inexplicables misterios médicos, contada un sinfín de veces por su madre...
2) Tenderloin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Can killing be an act of love? Hypnotic, gruesome, and exultant, Joy Sorman's macabre ballet whirls from industrial slaughterhouses to the boutique butcher shops of Paris.
Pim is a delicate youth-stringy, solemn, and prone to bouts of unexplained weeping. When he enrolls in trade school as an apprentice butcher, his mentors have low expectations, but his lanky body conceals a peculiar flame: a passionate devotion to animals. In an industry that strives...
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ninon Moise is cursed. So is her mother Esther, as was every eldest female member of her family going back to the Middle Ages. Each generation is marked by a uniquely obscure disease, illness, or ailment-one of her ancestors was patient zero in the sixteenth-century dancing plague of Strasbourg, while Esther has a degenerative eye disease. Ninon grows up comforted and fascinated by the recitation of these bizarre, inexplicable medical mysteries,...
