Soft Flesh

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Step into the decadent underworld of late 19th-century Paris where pleasure and disillusionment collide in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Soft Flesh</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Paul Adam's daring portrait of desire money and survival.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Lucie enters the grand salon for the first time she's thrust into a world of champagne smoke and dangerous charm. In this house of mirrors-part brothel part social stage-men scramble for sensation while women maneuver for power and escape. Lucie becomes Nina adopting a new name and playing the game as best she can. But beneath the laughter and flirtation lies a sharp awareness: this is a world where softness is currency and every embrace comes at a cost.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>First published in 1885 as </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chair Molle</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Paul Adam's scandalous debut shocked Parisian society with its raw depiction of prostitution and the transactional nature of love. Banned censored yet whispered about in literary circles it remains a powerful window into the gilded yet brutal Belle Époque.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now available in a vivid new English translation </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Soft Flesh</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> invites contemporary readers to experience the sensual cynical Paris that few dared to describe.</span></p><p></p>