Joy Sorman
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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
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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...
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For centuries, the women in Ninon Moise's family have been afflicted by obscure, inexplicable medical phenomena. Seventeen-year-old Ninon is no exception to this bizarre family inheritance, and she wakes one morning with a debilitating and excruciatingly painful response to touch on her arms. Unlike her forebears, Ninon refuses to passively accept her cursed fate and rebels against the indifferent medical professionals who dismiss her condition as...
