04281cam a2200913 4500 531378730 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781948226554 1948226553 B07RV1YLF7 Amazon 5f8c3af7-f7da-4527-997a-6c4ea3ec57a9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 673584 673584 673584 4744178 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Paralkar, Vikram. Night Theater [Libby eBook] : A Novel. Catapult, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 773kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. realistic fiction books. paranormal fiction. literary fiction. paranormal books. Natural history. Science Fiction. consciousness. fiction books. books fiction. anthropology. Neuroscience. supernatural. Spirituality. Paranormal. philosophy. psychology. literature. Education. Christian. spiritual. Evolution. Reference. Sociology. Astronomy. Medicine. Genetics. Physics. romance. Fiction. Healing. fitness. Biology. Medical. Doctors. fantasy. health. Nature. Doctor. energy. novels. ethics. Essays. sci-fi. demons. brain. space. Music. HTML:<p><b>A surgeon must bring a dead family back to life in this fabulist debut novel set in rural India, called "otherworldly" and "a haunting contemplation of life, death, the liminal space in between, and the dogged search for resurrection" (<i>Kirkus Reviews</i>, starred).</b></p> <p>Fleeing scandal in the city, a surgeon 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So begins a night of quiet work, "as if the crickets had been bribed," 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.</p> <p>In this inventive novel charged with philosophical gravity and sly humor, Vikram Paralkar takes on the practice of medicine in a time when the right to health care is frequently challenged. Engaging earthly injustice and imaginaries of the afterlife, he asks how we might navigate corrupt institutions to find a moral center. Encompassing social criticism and magically unreal drama, <i>Night Theater</i> is a first novel as satisfying for its existential inquiry as for its enthralling story of a skeptical physician who arrives at a greater understanding of life's miracles.</p>. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f8c3af7-f7da-4527-997a-6c4ea3ec57a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f8c3af7-f7da-4527-997a-6c4ea3ec57a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5f8c3af7-f7da-4527-997a-6c4ea3ec57a9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)