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Indien, Afrika oder Australien sind die Schauplä,tze dieser bemerkenswerten Kurzgeschichten. Mal heiter und mal tragisch erzä,hlen sie von Menschen in der Krise, von Trauer und Machtlosigkeit, aber auch von Verä,nderung, Mut und Vergebung. A fascinating short story collection by Australian born author John Murra
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John Murray trained as a doctor, and his debut collection of stories, A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies, reveals its author's background. Not all of his characters are physicians, but they tend to share a doctor's ability to concentrate on details and compartmentalize emotions. In "The Hill Station," the American-born daughter of Indian parents returns to India, where she speaks at a conference on infectious diseases. She is charged with new, ungovernable feelings when she finally meets actual patients with the disease she specializes in; heretofore, she had only known cholera under a microscope. Murray bumps his heroine into a new, looser way of living as she travels deeper into dirty, disease-ridden India. In the title story, a doctor mourns the loss of his sister and comes to terms with his family history, all the while examining butterflies. In "Blue," a climber ascends a Himalayan peak under dire circumstances and encounters ghostly memories of his father. These stories of frustrated, intelligent achievers can recall Mark Helprin, and Murray has, too, some of Helprin's ambitious scope. These stories aren't as crystalline as Helprin's, but that's a small complaint to lodge against an elegant first collection. --Claire Dederer
About the Author
John Murray trained as a doctor and is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a teaching-writing fellow. "The Hill Station" won the Prairie Lights Short Fiction Award, and the title story was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the Best New American Voices 2002 fiction anthology. John Murray currently lives in Iowa.
Two-time Tony® Award winner Stephen spinella has starred in such Broadway productions as Our Town, Angels in America, and Love! Valour! Compassion! Regionally and Off-Broadway, he has appeared in works by Shaw, Beckett, Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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