Dvärgen.

Description:

Set in a time when Italian towns feuded over the outcome of the last feud, this novel centers on a social outcast, the court dwarf Piccoline. From his special vantage point Piccoline comments on the court's prurience and on politcal intrigue as the town is gripped by a siege.

subjects: Courts and courtiers,  Dwarfs,  Fiction,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Swedish fiction,  Translations into English,  Dwarfs (Persons)