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“Wax” (title translated by AI)
Christine Wunnicke (born 1966)
English editions
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Paris under the Ancien Régime: thirteen-year-old Marie Biheron goes looking for corpses. She wants to become an anatomist, to understand how the parts of a body fit together and perhaps how the brain connects to the soul, and the organs she dissects become wax models that make her name. She learns much from the older Madeleine Basseporte, who draws the anatomy of flowers and prefers plants to people, and the two women fall in love. The story swings between their years together and the Terror of the Revolution.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 176 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, 18th century
- First published
- 2025 by Berenberg Verlag
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
9783911327039 (original)
- More
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