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Right of Thirst: A Novel

By Frank Huyler

Book information

Publisher
Harper Perennial
Year
2009
ISBN
0061687545, 9780061687549, 9780061864308
LCC
PS3608.U98 R54 2009
Open Library ID
OL17074665M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1366108 bytes)
Series
P.S.
Edition
1 Original
Pages
384\373
Topic
Medicine
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

Shattered by his wife's death, and by his own role in it, successful cardiologist Charles Anderson volunteers to assist with earthquake relief in an impoverished Islamic country in a constant state of conflict with its neighbor. But when the refugees he's come to help do not appear and artillery begins to fall in the distance along the border, the story takes an unexpected turn. This haunting, resonant tour de force about one man's desire to live a moral life offers a moving exploration of the tensions between poverty and wealth, the ethics of intervention, the deep cultural differences that divide the world, and the essential human similarities that unite it.

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