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France, 1798. Sister Perpetua is assigned to sit with an extraordinary patient who requires 24-hour care. The man is slowly being killed from the inside by a golden fork that he himself ate. But that's not all - it is rumored that he has done terrible things in an attempt to satisfy his own gluttony... which, it is said, still torments him.
Tarrard once lived in a loving world amidst the poor but picturesque landscapes of rural France. However, this world is not so kind, and abandoned to his fate, the young man loses himself among the confusing paths of revolutionary France, abandoning himself to the mercy of strangers until his uncontrollable hunger begins to grow.
"The Glutton" is a chilling novel inspired by the true story of the Great Tarrard, a Lyon glutton, that masterfully depicts the world of poverty, hunger, chaos, and the hope for survival of those on the margins of 18th-century French society.