The Anatomist - Hardcover

"Charmingly salacious...shows off the wonderful wit and narrative gifts of a welcome new Latin American writer." --"National Public Radio "Compelling and complex." --"Philadelphia City Paper "A fascinating book. The way Andahazi communicates the sense of exploration and possibility in Renaissance science and the inextricable links with philosophy and religion are extremely effective...gripping, a pleasure to read, and a very fine novel." --Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost "With The Anatomist, Andahazi deftly mines that delicious vein of wit and sensuality that runs from Boccaccio to Fellini, while slyly dissecting one of man's oldest obsessions: a woman's pleasure." --Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate

Matthew Columbus, a 16th-century physician in Italy, is charged with heresy by the Church authorities for uncovering the anatomy of the clitoris. This book was publicly denounced by the sponsor of the literary prize it won in Argentina, as it offers a controversial view of Renaissance Italy.