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Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith
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Richard Lafargue, a well-known plastic surgeon, pursues and captures Vincent Moreau, who raped Lafargue's daughter and left her hopelessly mad in an asylum. Lafargue is determined to exact an atrocious vengeance, and an ambiguous, even sadomasochistic relationship develops between self-appointed executioner and victim.
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Ast_Arslan
Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith
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There's no time for kindness in this book, no time for mercy.
#Mygale is a short but impressive ride into madness and into revenge.
There are three main characters and none of them are innocent. They all have sins to be expiated in the most cruel way.
The written style is cold and incisive as a blow from a scalpel. Maybe the ending is a little bit too hasty, but is definitely a short book hard to forget.

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Ast_Arslan
Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith
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I saw the movie (The skin I live in) long time ago and it was so disturbing that I've been curios about the book since then.
I already know it will be different about the Almodovar's work but I hope to like it, even because I'm not sure if I appreciated or not the movie 😅

#mygale #ThierryJonquet #ebook #disturbingcover

Palimpsest I have not read this book, but this is one of the most disturbing movies I‘ve ever seen! I‘ll have to watch for your book review. 4y
Ast_Arslan @Palimpsest it's a short novel, so it shouldn't take me longer to finish it 😁 the reading so far is quite disturbing too 😆 4y
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Mygale: City Lights Noir | Thierry Jonquet, Donald Nicholson-Smith
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I'm trying to get better about not finishing books I'm not enjoying and this was one. Didn't love the style and had already seen the movie. Didn't really feel worth even its meager page count.

MrBook Not every one is a winner. 👍🏻 7y
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