Once described as âthe most sickening work of art of the nineteenth centuryâ, Mirbeauâs sensual and disturbing novel follows a young manâs journey to the ends of desire and depravity in a grand Chinese palace garden where torture is enjoyed, and practiced, as a form of art itself.
With an introduction by the acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy.
Once described as âthe most sickening work of art of the nineteenth centuryâ, Mirbeauâs sensual and disturbing novel follows a young manâs journey to the ends of desire and depravity in a grand Chinese palace garden where torture is enjoyed, and practiced, as a form of art itself.
With an introduction by the acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy.