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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

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In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.

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LOVE submitted by N_Holtzman on August 7, 2018, 10:34am just loved this book. it's somehow funny and tragic and wise and absurd all at the same time. the characters are so great -- so real they seem to breathe. looking forward to reading marra's next books.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Hogarth, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 384 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780770436421 (softcover)
9780770436407
0770436404

SUBJECTS
Women physicians -- Fiction.
Hospitals.
Chechni͡a (Russia) -- History -- Civil War, 1994- -- Fiction.