Faces in the Water
Istina Mavet descends through increasingly desolate wards, with the threat of leucotomy ever present. As she observes her fellow patients, long dismissed by hospital staff, with humour and compassion, she reveals her original and questing mind. This riveting novel became an international classic,...
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Istina Mavet descends through increasingly desolate wards, with the threat of leucotomy ever present. As she observes her fellow patients, long dismissed by hospital staff, with humour and compassion, she reveals her original and questing mind. This riveting novel became an international classic, translated into nine languages, and has also been used as a medical school text.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780349011141 (0349011141)
Publish date: 2018-05-03
Publisher: Virago
Pages no: 223
Edition language: English
Istina Mavet, the narrator, is a young woman living in first one, then another, then the first again, mental hospitals in New Zealand. She narrates over about 9 years. I struggled with the first few chapters, as I could not see where this book was going. But where could it go? Once I let myself look...
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