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A tattooist who hides from the world in a modest room tells stories to his customers while he works on their skin, like Scheherazade, and settles accounts with his own conscience. His tale is that of the Snake Institute in a South American city of drug cartels and armed, desperately poor slums, and of the Institute's director, a scientist whose pride and obsession let him ignore every moral boundary and wreck the lives of others in pursuit of discoveries. An uneducated Indian woman with instincts beyond any scholar's knowledge is part of the story, and so are the long claws of an ugly chapter of European history.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

272 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2009 by Torst

Author's age

36 when first published

ISBN

9788072153718 (original)