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<p><p>“like A Cross Between John Le Carré And Ian Mcewan,<i> García’s Heart </i>treads The Line Between An Elegant, Elegiac Novel Of Ideas And A Sophisticated Political Thriller.”<p>—-pauls Toutonghi, Author Of<i> Red Weather</i></p><h3>publishers Weekly</h3><p><p>neurologist Durcan (<i>a Short Journey By Car</i>) Dissects The Ethics Involved When Politics, Medicine And Violence Collide In This Finely Wrought Novel About A Neurologist Turned Biotech Entrepreneur Who Travels To The Hague To Witness His Mentor's War Crimes Trial. Patrick Lazerenko Is A Punk Teen In Montreal When He First Meets Hernan García, The Spanish Immigrant Owner Of A Neighborhood Grocery Store. Caught Trying To Vandalize Hernan's Store, Patrick Is Roped Into Working Off The Damages And Soon Finds Himself Attached To The García Family. When Patrick Sees Hernan's Backroom Medical Consultations With Local Immigrants, He Is Inspired To Become A Doctor Himself. Years Later, A Journalist Exposes Hernan-dubbed The Angel Of Lepaterique-as Having Been Mixed Up In The Cia-backed Torture Of Subversive Citizens In Honduras In The 1980s. Parallels To Abu Ghraib And Guantanamo
- Author
- Kristin Hannah
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books; Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312367084
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, True Crime
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