ISBN: 0935480900
ISBN13: 9780935480900
Patient
$39.19List Price: $17.00
ISBN: 0935480900
ISBN13: 9780935480900
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A read copy that remains in clean condition.
Formats
Conditions
A read copy that remains in clean condition.
Book Overview
Appropriately colloquial, idiomatic translation of prolific Argentine writer's novel Soy paciente. A humerous satire on the state's health care system, novel may remind readers of Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest. No accompanying materials, which is unfortunate since Shua's work is not y This description may be from another edition of this product.
- Format:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 0935480900
- ISBN13:
- 9780935480900
- Release Date:
- January 1997
- Publisher:
- Latin American Literary Review Press
- Length:
- 144 Pages
- Weight:
- 0.40 lbs.
- Dimensions:
- 0.4″ × 5.4″ × 8.5″
Related Subjects
More by Ana María Shua
Customer Reviews
Health care horrors
"Patient," by the Argentine writer Ana Maria Shua, is a surreal novel in which an unnamed first-person narrator checks into an unnamed hospital. He finds himself entangled in an authoritarian, bureaucratic nightmare. The novel has been translated into a stark English by David William Foster.The novel's creepy, sometimes gruesome touches are oddly complemented by a current of ironic humor. Overall, the novel is strikingly similar in theme and tone to "Bedside Manners," by Luisa Valenzuela (another talented Argentine writer). If you're in the mood for a Kafkaesque satire, give "Patient" a read.
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Good laugh, but made me think!
Guy has a slight problem and goes to hospital and can't get out. Being the wife of a doctor myself I really enjoyed this book but it had me thinking, too..
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