ISBN-13: 9781537310602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 106 str.
500 grams of placenta lay in the surgical tray. A crimson-blue confection containing two umbilical arteries and one umbilical vein. It was inert, functionless, no longer connected to the chorionic plate. The vessels that had once formed the villous tree were now disconnected, and metaphorically, into the outside world, his first step, Julian would have to take.