The Surviving Cells - Couverture souple

Willems, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1068300167 ISBN 13 : 9781068300165

Editeur : Les Fugitives, 2026

Synopsis

Present-day Minneapolis. Dr Ana Jovanovic, oncologist, goes against the advice of her hospital's tumour board and schedules her patient Jonathan for exploratory surgery. She is proved right when the surgery reveals that he has cancer. But when Jonathan is unable to face his diagnosis and takes his own life, Ana is sent into a tailspin. She takes an unplanned sabbatical, hoping to rediscover herself outside her dual, devouring roles of doctor and mother to fifteen-year-old Maggie. A new relationship with Duri, a young medical intern who needs Ana's help to expose data falsification at his cancer research lab, promises both an exciting love affair and redemption for failing Jonathan. But mere months later, Ana discovers that the aches and fatigue she has been feeling are due to late-stage breast cancer. Now sharply aware of her own mortality, she is confronted for the first time by how it feels to be the patient; faced with making impossible decisions about quality of life and quality of death.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Willems was born in Minnesota, and now lives and works in Croatia, teaching literature at the University of Split and serving as director of its Studia Mediterranea centre. Brian's poetry and prose have appeared in The Antioch Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Things Magazine, Prague Literary Review and elsewhere. He is the author of the experimental novella Henry, Henry (2016), as well as several academic books, most recently Sham Ruins: A User's Guide (2022), and is co-editor, with Nicol Barria-Asenjo and Slavoj Zizek, of Global Manifestos for the 21st Century, with a foreword by Yanis Varoufakis (2023). He translates from Croatian into English, including work by Jurica Pavicic, and Luka Bekavac's Gallery of Fine Arts in Osijek: Studies, Ruins. He is co-editor of LOOK Editions, and has been a guest lecturer in the UK, USA, the Middle East, and continental Europe. The Surviving Cells is his first novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Les Fugitives
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1068300167
• ISBN 13: 9781068300165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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