num_pages: 352
description: A chronicle of life of an eighteenth-century man born without the ability to feel pain, this amazing book “offers a panoply of literary pleasures” (Washington Post Book World). Winner of Britain’s James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the 1999 IMPAC Award. “Astoundingly good” (New York Times Book Review).
language: English
title: Ingenious Pain
titlecomplete: Ingenious Pain
genres: Historical, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, 18th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Medicine, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 1788
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Premio Grinzane Cavour
category: Narrativa Straniera, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Mariner Books