This novel was written by a physician scientist and the story is unlike anything I’ve read. The setting is in a rural Indian village and reflects the poverty and corruption that is usual and expected.
It is a combination of scientific practicality and divinity. It is also unusual that no one in this novel is named. I happily read this in 1 day though be warned, there is descriptive surgery.
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Shimmering Prose--Stunningly Thought-Provoking
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2020
A surgeon in a remote clinic must bring the dead back to life by dawn in this fantastic, wholly unique read filled with existential angst, magical realism.Set in rural India, THE NIGHT THEATER (Jan 14, 2020 Catapult) is such an exquisite read unlike anything I've read before. Vikram Paralkar was born and raised in Mumbai and now resides in Pennsylvania as a physician-scientist and his expertise absolutely shines.In THE NIGHT THEATER, a bitter surgeon flees from his former job as a coroner/pathologist to a small village clinic where the conditions are poor--he's constantly cleaning and sterilizing, squashing roaches, and buying supplies out of pocket. He has a little help--a woman he calls a 'pharmacist,' but her credentials are questionable and she serves many roles: nurse, confidant, clinic manager, assistant.One night, a teacher, his pregnant wife, and 8-year old son appear at the clinic door one night as the surgeon is finalizing some paperwork. They were killed in a violent robbery, but tell the surgeon they have been offered another chance, 'sent back' from the afterlife at the hands of the 'afterlife official.' He has til dawn, less than 24 hours, to mend their wounds, to bring blood back to their bodies, to allow breath to flow again.He's skeptical at first, asks questions. Doubts rise. Who are these people? What do they want? Are they 'for real?' Criminals? Demonic? Is he merely exhausted? Is this really happening? The surgeon works quickly. He knows what to do.As a reader, we are asked to suspend beliefs, consider alternatives--what do angels look like? What do they say? Can the dead feel pain? Emotions? Can they cry? Is the afterlife run by bureaucrats? Is the afterlife truly 'better?' And who is God, anyway?THE NIGHT THEATER braids together and active story (can the surgeon mend this family within the time period), with a sort of existential questioning, ruminations on life and death. I was held captive in the glimmering but grotesque descriptions of the body, decay, the surgical procedures, and the magical essence of not fully knowing, palpating that luminal space between sleep and wakefulness, life and death. I was undone by this book.I found some similarities between the writing of THE NIGHT THEATER with that of Sarah Blake's NAAMAH meets Helen Phillips's THE NEED and perhaps the work of Leslie Jamison along with THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN (Mitch Albom) but also perhaps WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR (Paul Kalanathi).L.Lindsay|Always with a Book
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