An alternative history novel set in a world in which the Protestant Reformation never took place. Hubert Anvil is a singer in the choir of St. George's Basilica whose life is thrown into chaos when his teachers and the Church hierarchy decree that the boy's voice is too precious to sacrifice to puberty. Despite his own misgivings, he must undergo castration, the alteration of the title, in order to preserve it. Will he escape this turn of fate?
Editions · 5
Paperback
1988 · Penguin
205 pp · EN
9780140099522
Paperback
1988 · Carroll & Graf Publishers
204 pp · EN
9780881844320
Paperback
2011 · Penguin Random House
240 pp · EN
9781446414699
Paperback
2013 · New York Review Books
231 pp · EN
9781590176177
Paperback
2013 · New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
EN
9781299572096
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