num_pages: 221
description: Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and space to be with her, as the Doctor reduces Desiderio's city to a chaotic state of emergency - one ridden with madness, crime and sexual excess.A satirical tale of magic and sex, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman is a dazzling quest for truth, love and identity.
language: English
title: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
titlecomplete: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
genres: Magical Realism, Classics, Feminism, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 3520
publisher: Penguin Books