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12 May 2009
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It is Paris in the 1930s and Emanuel, a Romanian student, finds himself dangerously ill with spinal tuberculosis. Sent to a sanatorium near the coast, he remains wrapped in a full body cast for a year. But while he endures his terrible cure, he unexpectedly falls in love.

Old Street Publishing Scarred Hearts Paperback

It is Paris in the 1930s and Emanuel, a Romanian student, finds himself dangerously ill with spinal tuberculosis. Sent to a sanatorium near the coast, he remains wrapped in a full body cast for a year. But while he endures his terrible cure, he unexpectedly falls in love.

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'Scarred Hearts is a masterpiece. . . . It is a book to live with, to read again and again, as only great literature demands us to.'
—Paul Bailey

 
 
  • 'Elegant and powerful.'
    —Financial Times
  • 'It is a matter for rejoicing that this small masterpiece should survive to delight readers of another century.'
    —Daily Telegraph
 
 

Max Blecher was born in 1909 into a Jewish family in Botosani, Romania. At the age of 19, he contracted tuberculosis of the spine and spent the rest of his life in hospitals and sanatoria. Scarred Hearts, his second and last novel, appeared in 1937, a year before his death at the age of 29.