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Abraham Verghese

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11+ verk 12,579 medlemmar 645 recensioner 19 favoritmärkta

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Abraham Verghese was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1955. He received an M.D. from Madras University, India, in 1979 and came to the U.S a year later to do a residency in Tennessee. He also earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1991. Verghese has been involved mainly in medical research visa mer and teaching. His specialties include internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, geriatrics, and infectious diseases; the latter has led to an interest in AIDS, which has been the subject of much of his writing. Verghese's thesis was a collection of stories about AIDS, and he then went on to write My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS. My Own Country received the Lambda Literary Award for Nonfiction and was selected by Time as one of the top five books of 1994. Verghese is also the author of The Tennis Partner: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss, and his short stories, articles, and reviews have appeared in magazines and newspapers such as North American Review, Sports Illustrated, and MD. Verghese, who is divorced, has two children, Steven and Jacob and resides in El Paso, Tex. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Abraham Verghese

Skära för sten (2009) 9,481 exemplar
The Covenant of Water (2023) 1,354 exemplar
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story (1994) 1,075 exemplar
The Tennis Partner (1998) 655 exemplar
Die Träumenden von Madras (2023) 7 exemplar
Het verbond van het water (2024) 2 exemplar
Short Stories (2006) 1 exemplar
The Covenant 1 exemplar
Powrot do Missing (polish) (2011) 1 exemplar
Watching Insects (2015) 1 exemplar

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Granta 48: Africa (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 143 exemplar
Granta 39: The Body (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 105 exemplar
A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 81 exemplar
Boston Noir 2: The Classics (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1992 (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Vital Signs: Essential AIDS Fiction (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Silence Kills: Speaking Out and Saving Lives (2007) — Inledning — 11 exemplar

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Set in the southern Indian coast from 1900-1977, we meet three generations of family who has lost members through drowning. We live alongside these characters, through good times (marriages, births) and bad times (monsoons, illness, untimely deaths). We also learn about the history of India during those years, something I knew little about. The characters propel this fascinating story- from a 12 year-old girl who is married off to a 40 year-old man and becomes the matriarch of an important family, to Digby, a Scottish doctor who ends up working at a leper community, to Elsie, a artist who wants desperately to be allowed to create her art, to Mariamma, who trains to become a doctor trying to discover why her family members die from drowning- all of their stories intersect until the surprising ending that had me gasping. It's a true commitment to read this novel, but so worth it.… (mer)
 
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bookchickdi | 60 andra recensioner | Mar 11, 2024 |
A sprawling family saga set among the St. Thomas Christians of India's south west coast, in the mid 20th Century. At Parambil the family's history is profoundly shaped by the mysterious aversion to water and numerous drownings among it's members. Also entering the story is an illegitimate son of a Glasgow variety actress who wants to be a surgeon but must go to India because, somewhat ironically, he is essentially, in spite of his training, an untouchable to the British medical professionals. His crooked course does have important tangents with the genetically afflicted family at Parambil.… (mer)
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quondame | 60 andra recensioner | Mar 7, 2024 |
Spoilers, a book that was wonderfully plotted and well written, ruined for me, by it's treatment of women. Sr. Mary Praise, raped, Genet, used and mutilated and then used again while desperately ill by the main character. All the unknown girls with fistula .The woman tricked into sleeping with the wrong twin. Rosina, the mistress, beaten and driven to suicide. Only the somewhat hazy mother superior and Hema have any strength and it is lost amid all the brutality. Maybe I'm missing it and the author was making a commentary on the treatment of women. I am not a huge feminist, I love dickens depite his mostly wispy washy women, but I found this hard to take… (mer)
 
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cspiwak | 536 andra recensioner | Mar 6, 2024 |
I was trying to immerse myself in this long family saga but could not persevere past the images of the sixteen year old wife having distant encounters with her widower husband.
 
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itheodore | 60 andra recensioner | Mar 3, 2024 |

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11
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12,579
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#1,860
Betyg
4.3
Recensioner
645
ISBN
90
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14
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