The Afflictions

By Vikram Paralkar

Book Overview

Shadowing an elderly librarian on his first day at the great Central Library, M ximo 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 M ximo 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1941360025
• ISBN13: 9781941360026
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Lanternfish Press LLC
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"