Ingenious Pain

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Ingenious Pain: the extraordinary prize-winning debut

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award

''Astoundingly good'' The Times

''Dazzling'' Observer

''Timeless'' Spectator

At the dawn of the Enlightenment, a man is born unable to feel pain.

A source of wonder and scientific curios...