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The Hormone Factory

A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781590516492

Contributor(s): Saskia Goldschmidt (author), Hester Velmans (translated by)

Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Other Press

Publication Date: 13-11-2014

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£14.99

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About the book

From the throes of his death bed, Dutch pharmaceutical entrepreneur and megalomaniac Mordecai de Paauw reflects on his life as the co-founder and CEO of Farmacon: the first company to standardise and distribute the contraceptive pill worldwide. With the future of his family business threatened by Hitler's precipitous rise to power and his sexual exploitation of the factory's women soon to be exposed, he struggles to keep his vision afloat, forcing him to choose between his own misguided impulses and his ethically minded Jewish family.