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The Good Doctor
The Good Doctor
Damon Galgut (born 1963)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Good Doctor
Atlantic Books · United Kingdom · 18 August 2022 · Paperback
The Good Doctor
Atlantic Books · United Kingdom · 2003 · 215 pages
The Good Doctor
Grove Press · United States · 20 October 2004 · Paperback · 240 pages
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Frank, second in charge at a run-down hospital in a former homeland, has given up on it: hardly any patients come, whole wards are shut and equipment goes missing. Into this arrives Laurence Waters, young, hopeful and brimming with ideas, who is billeted in Frank's room and promptly calls him a friend. Frank wants nothing to do with his campaigns, and the other staff regard the newcomer with both admiration and suspicion. Meanwhile the nearby town fills with soldiers and with figures from the apartheid era, and after a theft at the hospital the two men are thrown into an awkward alliance in a South Africa still settling accounts with its history.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- South Africa
- First published
- 2003
- Author's age
- 40 when first published
- ISBN
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9781843542018 (Atlantic Books, United Kingdom)
9780802141699 (Grove Press, United States)
9781838958862 (Atlantic Books, United Kingdom)
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