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The story of Dr Jack Preger, the English doctor whose life is dedicated to treating the street-dwellers of Calcutta.
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A barrister by training, Jeremy Josephs worked for three years as political assistant to David Steel, then the leader of the Liberal Party. His first book, published in 1983, was Inside the Alliance, a history of the Liberal-Social Democratic Alliance. He is also the author of Swastika Over Paris, Hungerford, Murder in the Family, A Chateau in the Dordogne and Rosa's Child. He lives in France.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0747508909
- ISBN 13 9780747508908
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition, First Impression. Dust jacket complete, unclipped slight wear to edges. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owners inscription on f. paste down. xiv, 192 pages clean and tight. In the backstreets of Calcutta, shielded from the scorching sun by a tattered tarpaulin, mothers clutching semi-conscious, emaciated babies, and adults and children with missing or gangrenous limbs or suffering from tuberculosis or leprosy, queue in their hundreds to see Dr Jack Preger. On a stretch of pavement measuring two metres by thirty he runs a unique clinic. His patients are the destitute and the dispossessed, those who live and die on the streets. The clinic has survived for over a decade, in spite of official disapproval, and will soon be ministering to its 20,000th family. Born and brought up in an orthodox Jewish family near Manchester, as a young adult Preger converted to Catholicism. In 1972 he qualified as a doctor and immediately left to set up a clinic in Bangladesh. Seven years later he was expelled after exposing a government-masterminded racket involving the illegal export of babies for adoption. Undeterred, he set off again the following year to begin his now legendary work in Calcutta. Preger is a man of paradox. To the West Bengali authorities, he is an embarrassment and a nuisance, continually campaigning against official corruption, permanently awaiting trial for practising without a licence, and vowing to fight the threatened closure of his clinic and resist deportation even at the risk of imprisonment. To the people of Calcutta, whose desperate suffering he struggles tirelessly to alleviate, he is a `living saint'. A self-confessed manic depressive, Preger relies on his work to sustain him. His two broken marriages - and two deserted children - bespeak a turbulent personal life which he finds difficult to reconcile with his reputation as a paragon of virtue. `I am certainly no saint - nor have I ever been. . . A lot of the things that people imagine about someone like myself are just projected fantasies. The fact is that I happen to work with poor people. To me it's the most natural thing in the world.' Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 130115
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