The Afflictions

By Vikram Paralkar

Book Overview

The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is 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?

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: 1941360351
• ISBN13: 9781941360354
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Lanternfish Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 7.9"