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Can I read Right of Thirst: A Novel (P.S.) on EtoBox?
Right of Thirst: A Novel (P.S.) by Frank Huyler, 1964- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Right of Thirst: A Novel (P.S.) about?
<p><P>Shattered by his wife's death, and by his own role in it, successful cardiologist Charles Anderson volunteers to assist with earthquake relief in an impoverished Islamic country in a constant state of conflict with its neighbor. But when the refugees he's come to help do not appear and artillery begins to fall in the distance along the border, the story takes an unexpected turn. <P>This haunting, resonant tour de force about one man's desire to live a moral life offers a moving exploration of the tensions between poverty and wealth, the ethics of intervention, the deep cultural differences that divide the world, and the essential human similarities that unite it.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p><P>Doctor-author Huyler offers in his first novel (after story collection <I>The Laws of Invisible Things</I>) a clear-eyed if occasionally overwrought exploration of grief and redemption in a refugee camp set in an unnamed mountainous Islamic country. After witnessing his wife's slow death, cardiologist Charles Anderson volunteers to be the doctor at a remote refugee camp set up in the aftermath of an earthquake. He is joined by Elise, a German geneticist studying the DNA of a mountai
Who reads Right of Thirst: A Novel (P.S.)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Frank Huyler, 1964-
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061864322
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Medical, Thriller
- Rating
- 3.4 / 5 (244 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
