Night theater : a novel / Vikram Paralkar.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Catapult, 2020Copyright date: ©2017Whakaahuatanga: 209 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781948226547
- 813/.6 23
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Fiction | Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | PARA (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | I takina atu | 13/05/2024 | i2200914 |
First published in India 2017 as: "The wounds of the dead" --Title page verso.
A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they tell the surgeon that they have been offered a second chance at living if the surgeon can mend their wounds before sunrise. So begins a night of quiet work, "as if the crickets had been bribed," during which the surgeon realizes his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. By dawn, he and his assistant have gained knowledge no mortal should have.
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