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The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart

by Mathias Malzieu

Artificial HeartFictionEdinburgh (scotland), fictionFiction, romance, historical

Edinburgh, 1874: Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation — the implantation of a cuckoo-clock in his chest. From then on his days all begin with a wind-up, in this dark, tender fairy tale spiced with devilish humour.

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Book data: Open Library