A novel about the aberration and endurance of the human condition translated by tiina nunnally. Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from denmark, is given as a gift to the Russian tsar, peter the great because he is taken b...A novel about the aberration and endurance of the human condition translated by tiina nunnally. Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from denmark, is given as a gift to the Russian tsar, peter the great because he is taken by her freakishness and intellect.