# Touching Earth

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- Book: [Touching Earth](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka/touching-earth) ([Touching Earth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka/touching-earth.md))
- Authors: [Rani Manicka](https://www.bookquiver.com/rani-manicka)
- Publisher: Hodder Stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4473-719-6
- Published: 2011-10-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

THE BALINESE TWINS - Beautiful and exotic, they exchange an island paradise for the shabby squalor of London, and innocence for corruption. THE SICILIAN - Ricky Delgado strikes a devil's bargain with a blood goddess: 'Build my temple and bring me the souls of damaged people, and you will see what rewards I give.' THE COURTESAN - Elizabeth makes her living from men's desire. With a flick of the switch in her head, she feels nothing: no pain, no hate, no sorrow, no joy. THE ARTIST - Anis takes to painting as an outlet for his rage. His artist's eye knows his subjects before they know themselves, and he paints them all, a gallery of broken people. Can they escape the deadly web of decadence and sin?