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The Good Doctor

Damon Galgut

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The Good Doctor won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not—young, optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities—but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last.

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780857895110
Genre
FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
Post-apartheid South AfricaFriendship and betrayalIdealism vs. cynicism

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