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The tiny Miss M. relates her orphan childhood, and the pain caused by her realization that she must either learn to tolerate her size or live with it in hatred. Hailed as "a poet's book," by critic J. C. Squire, the novel won the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
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Inspired by Velz̀quez's baroque masterpiece, Las Meninas, The Queen's Prophet is an imagined account of the dwarfess Maribarbola of Spain (featured prominently in Velz̀quez's painting) and her struggle for survival and self-determination at a time when dwarfs were kept by aristocracy as pets, prophets, and good luck charms. When the Countess of Walther dies at her German estate, her loyal dwarfess Maria-Barbara is forced to work as a prophet for...
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