Historia y desventuras de una pequeña criada llamada Little, que más
tarde se convirtió en la famosa Madame Tussaud.
Una novela histórica, mágica y tremendamente adictiva que sigue la vida
de Little, que pasó de ser una pequeña sirvienta a la mayor artista de
la cera de todos los tiempos, pasando por amiga de la realeza y pieza
clave en la Revolución Francesa
¡No te pierdas este libro excentrico pero encantador! Narrado por la
mismísima Madame Tussaud, maestra de la cera, recorre su vida a través
de varias épocas, incluida la Revolución Francesa, tiempo de esplendor
para las cabezas. MARGARET ATWOOD
Entre Dickens y David Lynch, pasando por Defoe y Tim Burton." THE NEW
YORK TIMES
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
**An amazing achievement. . . A compulsively readable novel, so canny
and weird and surfeited with the reality of human capacity and ingenuity
that I am stymied for comparison. Dickens and David Lynch? Defoe meets
Margaret Atwood? Judge for yourself. --Gregory Maguire, New York
Times-bestselling author of Wicked
The wry, macabre, unforgettable tale of an ambitious orphan in
Revolutionary Paris, befriended by royalty and radicals, who transforms
herself into the legendary Madame Tussaud.
In 1761, a tiny, odd-looking girl named Marie is born in a village in
Switzerland. After the death of her parents, she is apprenticed to an
eccentric wax sculptor and whisked off to the seamy streets of Paris,
where they meet a domineering widow and her quiet, pale son. Together,
they convert an abandoned monkey house into an exhibition hall for wax
heads, and the spectacle becomes a sensation. As word of her artistic
talent spreads, Marie is called to Versailles, where she tutors a
princess and saves Marie Antoinette in childbirth. But outside the
palace walls, Paris is roiling: The revolutionary mob is demanding
heads, and . . . at the wax museum, heads are what they do.
In the tradition of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and Erin Morgenstern's
The Night Circus, Edward Carey's Little is a darkly endearing
cavalcade of a novel--a story of art, class, determination, and how we
hold on to what we love.
LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2019
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA CROWN AWARDS 2019
'A startlingly original novel' ― Times, BOOKS OF THE YEAR
