Night theatre

Resource Information

The work Night theatre represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Night theatre

Statement of responsibility

Vikram Paralkar

Creator

• trueParalkar, Vikram

Author

• trueParalkar, Vikram

Subject

• India -- Fiction
• Magic realism (Literature)
• Surgeons -- Fiction
• Death -- Fiction

Genre

• Magic realism (Literature)
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

As dusk approaches, a former surgeon goes about closing up his dilapidated clinic in rural India. His day, like all his days, has been long and hard. His medical supplies arrive late if at all, the electrics in the clinic threaten to burn out at any minute, and his overseer, a corrupt government official, blackmails and extorts him. It is thankless work, but the surgeon has long given up any hope of reward in this life. That night, as the surgeon completes his paperwork, he is visited by a family - a teacher, his heavily pregnant wife and their young son. Victims of a senseless attack, they reveal to the surgeon wounds that they could not possibly have survived. And so the surgeon finds himself faced with a preposterous task: to mend the wounds of the dead family before sunrise so that they may return to life. But this is not the only challenge laid before the surgeon, and as the night unfolds he realises his future is tied more closely to that of the dead family than he could have imagined. At once dustily realist and magically unreal, Night Theatre is a powerful fable about the miracles we ask of doctors, and the fine line they negotiate between life and death

Member of

• Wounds of the dead

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult