book cover of The Good Doctor
Added by 6 members
 

The Good Doctor

(2003)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2005 Dublin Literary Award (nominee)
2003 Booker Prize (shortlist)

When Laurence Waters arrives at his rural hospital posting, Frank is instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not - young, optimistic and full of new schemes. The two become uneasy friends, while the rest of the staff in the deserted hospital view Laurence with a mixture of awe and mistrust. The town beyond the hospital is also coping with new arrivals, and the return of old faces. The brigadier - a self-fashioned dictator from apartheid days - is rumoured still to be alive. And down at Mama's place, a group of soldiers have moved in with their malign commandant, a man Frank has met before and is keen to avoid. Laurence wants to help - but in a world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his ill-starred idealism cannot last. In gleaming prose Damon Galgut has created a literary thriller out of an unlikely friendship. The Good Doctor is a gripping novelistic high-wire act.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Visitors also looked at these books


Used availability for Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors