num_pages: 512
description: 1784, Venice. Miniguillo Fasan claws his way out of his mother’s womb. The magniﬁcent Palazzo Espagnol, built on New World drugs and silver, has an heir. Twelve years later Minguillo uncovers a threat to his inheritance: a sister. His jealousy will condemn her to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But she is not alone - aided by an irascible portrait-painter, a doctor obsessed with skin, and a cigar-smoking nun - Marcella pits her own ﬁerce heart against Minguillo.
language: English
title: The Book of Human Skin
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing