The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred

Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot is the picaresque fable of the love that grows between the mute, telepathic human monstrosity Hercules and the beautiful Henriette--a love that will entwine their fates forever. Author Carl-Johan Vallgren creates an unforgettable cast of grotesqueries in a magical and atmospheric tour of nineteenth-century Europe--from the bordello, where Hercules is born, to the squalor of the asylum, where he finds only pain, to the sinister grandeur of the Jesuit monasteries in which he finds both shelter and peril, to the phantasmagoria of the freak show with which he travels. A moving, uplifting, at times dark and macabre tale of social oppression, official corruption, religious persecution, and unwavering devotion, it is a story that enchants and surprises . . . and leaves one wide-eyed with wonder, like a small child at his first carnival.

Author: Carl-Johan Vallgren
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 03/27/2007
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.66w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780060842147

About the Author
Vallgren, Carl-Johan: -

Carl-Johan Vallgren is the author of eight novels; this is the first to be translated into English. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden.