The Anatomist - Tapa blanda

"Charmingly salacious...shows off the wonderful wit and narrative gifts of a welcome new Latin American writer." --"National Public Radio"
"Compelling and complex." --"Philadelphia City Paper"
"A fascinating book. The way Andahazi communicates the sense of exploration and possibility in Renaissance science and the inextricable links with philosophy and religion are extremely effective...gripping, a pleasure to read, and a very fine novel." --Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost
"With The Anatomist, Andahazi deftly mines that delicious vein of wit and sensuality that runs from Boccaccio to Fellini, while slyly dissecting one of man's oldest obsessions: a woman's pleasure." --Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate

Based on historical fact, a novel which recounts the fortunes of one Matthew Columbus, the 16th-century anatomist who scandalised Italian society and found himself in prison when he discovers sources of female pleasure. From the author of A HISTORY OF READING.