Vikram Paralkar

The Afflictions

Illustrator: Valentinis, Pia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shadowing an elderly librarian on his first day at the great Central Library, Maximo is thrilled to get a peek at the exclusive Encyclopedia of Medicine. It's a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you've ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you-or after? As Maximo soon discovers, medicine at the Central Library may be more than he bargained for. The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lanternfish Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 137mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9781941360354
• ISBN-10: 1941360351
• Artikelnr.: 59966399

Autorenporträt

Vikram Paralkar was born and raised in Mumbai. Author of two works of fiction, The Afflictions and Night Theater, he is a physician-scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, where he treats patients with leukemia and researches the disease. His works have been translated into several foreign languages.