The Horrific Sufferings Of The Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot

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<p>On a stormy night in 1813, a doctor is called to the aid of two prostitutes in childbirth. To one is born a healthy girl, Henriette, to the other, what can only be described as a monster: a boy, Hercules, deaf-mute and hideously deformed, and with the power to read minds.</p><p>As he tells the story of Hercules' bizarre and colourful life, which leads him from the bordello of his birth to a travelling freak show and then a Jesuit monastery and an asylum, Vallgren paints a magical picture of nineteenth-century Europe. This picaresque fable is filled with curiosities but is, at its heart, an extraordinary and unforgettable love story.</p>

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<b>CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN</b>was born in 1964. He is the author of eight novels, of which<i>The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-reading Monster Hercules Barefoot</i>...was the first novel to be appear in English. His work has been translated into eleven languages. He lives in Stockholm.

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