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Night theater : a novel

Summary: "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 ... 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"--Page 2 of cover.

Record details

ISBN: 1948226553
ISBN: 9781948226554
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: New York : Catapult, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First published in India in 2017 as The Wounds of the Dead by Fourth Estate"--Title page verso. "First published in Great Britain in 2019 as Night Theatre by Serpent's Tail"--Title page verso.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO ; viewed November 1, 2019)