Joy Sorman
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"Joy Sorman's Life Sciences takes an overtly political premise-the medical establishment's inability or perhaps refusal to take seriously the physical struggles of women-and transforms it into a surreal and knife-deep work of fiction that asks: What pain can we abide, and what pain must we fight back against, even if the fight hurts more than the disease itself?" -Lena Dunham, The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
Ninon Moise is cursed....
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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...
3) 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...