BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY
In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band - a tired, overworked surgical resident and a therapist - are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a novel about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive, a little longer, the vanishing narratives of childhood.
'Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today' Daily Telegraph
- ISBN10 1848871430
- ISBN13 9781848871434
- Publish Date 1 August 2010 (first published 1 May 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Atlantic Books
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English