The Castrati, Certainly not women, not quite men. Neither adults nor children. A group of half males adored by both the common people and the nobility, a they are described in this bittersweet, decadent, optimistic novel.Winner of France’s Medicis Prize, translated into six languages, having sold over 125,000 copies in France alone, Porporino is at once a dazzling re-creation of an exciting historical period and a serious, startling meditation on our own ...
