Patient

By Ana María Shua

Appropriately colloquial, idiomatic translation of prolific Argentine writer's novel Soy paciente. A humerous satire on the state's health care system, novel may remind readers of Ken Kesey's One flew... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0935480900
• ISBN13: 9780935480900
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Latin American Literary Review Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Health care horrors

"Patient," by the Argentine writer Ana Maria Shua, is a surreal novel in which an unnamed first-person narrator checks into an unnamed hospital. He finds himself entangled in an authoritarian, bureaucratic nightmare. The novel has been translated into a stark English by David William Foster.The novel's creepy, sometimes gruesome touches are oddly complemented by a current of ironic humor. Overall, the novel is strikingly similar in theme and tone to "Bedside Manners," by Luisa Valenzuela (another talented Argentine writer). If you're in the mood for a Kafkaesque satire, give "Patient" a read.

Good laugh, but made me think!

Guy has a slight problem and goes to hospital and can't get out. Being the wife of a doctor myself I really enjoyed this book but it had me thinking, too..