- Publisher: Atlantic
- Year: 2019
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 416pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 198x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781848871434
- Product code: 516924
Operation Wandering Soul
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In this novel reflecting on the treatment of children by adults, a surgical resident and a physiotherapist working in a paediatric ward enrich the lives of the young people in their care by telling them fantastical and outlandish stories.
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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY
In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band - a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist - are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.
'Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today' Daily Telegraph
In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band - a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist - are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.
'Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today' Daily Telegraph
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In this novel reflecting on the treatment of children by adults, a surgical resident and a physiotherapist working in a paediatric ward enrich the lives of the young people in their care by telling them fantastical and outlandish stories.
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