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Right Of Thirst (2009)

by Frank Huyler(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0061687545 (ISBN13: 9780061687549)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: This book is a very good fictional read. It tells the story of a cardiologist who after the death of his wife sets out to try and sort out within himself where his own life is going after this traumatic event. He decides to volunteer as a doctor in a newly set up refugee camp and so the actual story of the quest to resolve his inner conflicts begin. This story turned out much better than I first thought it would. The question that you are left wondering about within the first chapter is answered towards the end of the book. This is a a fairly quick and easy read.
review 2: This is the story of a man whose wife dies when he's around 60. To make sense of his life, he goes off to an unnamed country, but which seems probably to be Afghanistan, volunteering his doc... moretor skills. The story takes place first in the US, with his wife dying, then in the camp where he stays in the far country, then in the city when that is over, as he makes sense of his experience there. One of the reviews on the back of the book says: "one of the finest novels I've read in years." These kind of comments are set-ups, of course, and I'm giving this two stars partly because it didn't come anywhere near that expectation. While it purports to be about class differences, cultural divides, and the ethics of intervention, I didn't find it addressed those issues in ways that I could sink my teeth into, so to speak. The strongest parts, I found, were in the beginning, his relationship with his wife. There was one part about 2/3 of the way through which shone a light on decisions made in war that I thought was helpful. less

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