Nosemaker's Apprentice: Chronicles of a Medieval Plastic Surgeon

The hero of this tale is Gavin, a young orphan apprenticed with the local Nosemaker, who eventually becomes one of the finest surgeons in Vienna. Using innovative skin grafting techniques and cutting edge alchemy, Gavin and his master seek only to do the Work of the Almighty by restoring small appendages lost to rat bites, dueling, and syphilis. But when they are unable to help a powerful and mutilated knight recently returned from the crusades, they find their feet over the fire...literally. Hilarious,… Show more subversive, quasi-historical, and thoroughly debauched. . . a fated collaboration between two innovative (and troubling) writers.

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