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Himalayan Dhaba
Craig Joseph Danner

Himalayan Dhaba

Dutton Adult (Jun 03, 2002)
9780525946908
| Hardcover
272 pages | 157 x 241 mm | English
$ 23.95 | Value: $ 23.95
Dewey 813.6

Subject

  • Americans
  • Americans - India
  • Himalaya Mountains
  • Medical Novels
  • Women Physicians

Plot

After a hair-raising journey, Dr. Mary Davis arrives in a remote Himalayan village with just a backpack and a box of medicines. Expecting to work with a talented Indian surgeon, she finds instead that he is missing and she is now the only doctor for a hundred miles. When an injured tourist stumbles into her overcrowded clinic, he triggers a series of events that connects an unusual mix of characters: Phillip, the spoiled son of a British diplomat; Antone, an aging addict who attempts to kidnap him; Meena, a local village girl who embarks on an improbable rescue; adn Amod, the lonely waiter in the local dhaba, who secretly looks after Mary. Steeped with surprising humor and harrowing detail, Himalayan Dhaba reveals a startling variety of human strengths.