Издания и произведения

Los Angeles, Carver Hospital. Richard Kraft, interne en chirurgie pédiatrique, et sa collègue Linda sont sous tension constante. Ils tentent de soigner des enfants, mystérieux, qui en savent beaucoup plus qu'eux sur l'âme humaine. Le roman sonde les fondements de la rémission et la mémoire de l'Amérique.

Highly imaginative and emotionally powerful, this stunning novel about childhood innocence amidst the nightmarish disease and deterioration at the heart of modern Los Angeles was nominated for a National Book Award. "Like the stories read to children, this intensely caring novel can help prevent the nightmare it describes."--USA Today.

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.