The Insult (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)

by Rupert Thomson

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It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens ...

  • ISBN10 1408833182
  • ISBN13 9781408833186
  • Publish Date 30 August 2012 (first published 16 February 1996)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 416
  • Language English