TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paralkar,Vikram
TI  - Night theater: a novel 
SN  - 9781948226547
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Catapult
KW  - Death
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Surgeons
KW  - Surgical clinics
KW  - India
KW  - Paranormal fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Fables
KW  - Novels
KW  - Magic realist fiction
N1  - "First published in India in 2017 as The Wounds of the Dead by Fourth Estate"--Title page verso; "First published in Great Britain in 2019 as Night Theatre by Serpent's Tail"--Title page verso
N2  - "A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and 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. 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. So begins a night of quiet work ... 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"--Page 2 of cover
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