The book of human skin

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1784, Venice. Miniguillo Fasan claws his way out of his mothers womb. The magni cent Palazzo Espagnol, built on New World drugs and silver, has an heir. Twelve years later Minguillo uncovers a threat to his inheritance: a sister. His jealousy will condemn her to a series of fates as a cripple, a madwoman and a nun. But she is not alone, aided by an irascible portrait-painter, a doctor obsessed with skin and a cigar-smoking nun, Marcella pits her own erce heart against Minguillo.