| Description |
151 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own creeping effect on Karina, the hospital secretary, who cannot resist becoming involved. Meanwhile Dr Miranda is coming to terms with a tragedy of his own: his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and yet the doctor - the son - finds it impossible to tell him. He hopes that by taking his father on a trip to Isla Margarita, where they once went when he was a child, he might be able to reveal the truth. The nature of sickness as experienced by two individuals provides the backbone to this tender, thoughtful and refined novel |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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This translation originally published: London: MacLehose, 2010 |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Hypochondria -- Patients -- Fiction.
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Physicians -- Fiction.
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Stalkers -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Costa, Margaret Jull.
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| ISBN |
1849164037 (paperback) |
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9781849164030 (paperback) |
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