Monsieur Pain
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback
Book Blurb
A disciple of Mesmer is asked to cure the hiccups of a poor South American abandoned in a Paris hospital in the spring of 1938. On the surface, nothing can happen. However, the mesmerist Pierre Pain will be involved in an intrigue in which a ritual murder of planetary proportions is planned. Who is the South American who is dying in the Arago hospital? Why do hidden forces want his death? What is lost and what is gained by this death? Only Pierre Pain realizes what is going on behind the scenes. And he is not a hero but an ordinary man: solitary, secretly in love with Madame Reynaud, delicate, peaceful, unbelieving, the least indicated to try to solve an extraordinary story halfway between chance and causality, a life-or-death adventure in which love, loneliness, the dignity and value of the human being, delirium, and irremediable sadness will be at stake.
An unusual novel in which the author of The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, displays his no less unusual literary stature.
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback
Book Blurb
A disciple of Mesmer is asked to cure the hiccups of a poor South American abandoned in a Paris hospital in the spring of 1938. On the surface, nothing can happen. However, the mesmerist Pierre Pain will be involved in an intrigue in which a ritual murder of planetary proportions is planned. Who is the South American who is dying in the Arago hospital? Why do hidden forces want his death? What is lost and what is gained by this death? Only Pierre Pain realizes what is going on behind the scenes. And he is not a hero but an ordinary man: solitary, secretly in love with Madame Reynaud, delicate, peaceful, unbelieving, the least indicated to try to solve an extraordinary story halfway between chance and causality, a life-or-death adventure in which love, loneliness, the dignity and value of the human being, delirium, and irremediable sadness will be at stake.
An unusual novel in which the author of The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, displays his no less unusual literary stature.
Condition: Wizard’s Library Copy
Size: Small Paperback
Book Blurb
A disciple of Mesmer is asked to cure the hiccups of a poor South American abandoned in a Paris hospital in the spring of 1938. On the surface, nothing can happen. However, the mesmerist Pierre Pain will be involved in an intrigue in which a ritual murder of planetary proportions is planned. Who is the South American who is dying in the Arago hospital? Why do hidden forces want his death? What is lost and what is gained by this death? Only Pierre Pain realizes what is going on behind the scenes. And he is not a hero but an ordinary man: solitary, secretly in love with Madame Reynaud, delicate, peaceful, unbelieving, the least indicated to try to solve an extraordinary story halfway between chance and causality, a life-or-death adventure in which love, loneliness, the dignity and value of the human being, delirium, and irremediable sadness will be at stake.
An unusual novel in which the author of The Savage Detectives, winner of the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, displays his no less unusual literary stature.
