Himalayan Dhaba - Hardcover

Craig Joseph Danner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970640595 ISBN 13: 9780970640598

Publisher: Crispin/Hammer, 2001

Synopsis

After a hair-raising journey, Dr. Mary Davis arrives in a remote Himalayan village with just a backpack and a box of medicines. Expecting to work with a talented Indian surgeon, she finds instead that he is missing and she is now the only doctor within a hundred miles. When an injured tourist stumbles into her overcrowded clinic, he triggers a series of events that connects an unusual mix of characters: Phillip, the spoiled son of a British diplomat; Antone, an aging addict who attempts to kidnap him; Meena, a local village girl who embarks on an improbable rescue; and Amod, the lonely waiter in the local dhaba, who secretly looks after Mary.

Steeped with surprising humor and harrowing detail, Himalayan Dhaba reveals a startling variety of human strengths.

About this title

About the Author

Craig Danner is a native Oregonian and fourth generation bootmaker. He now makes his living as a Physician Assistant, practicing medicine in the shadow of Mount Hood. His next novel, THE FIRES OF EDGARVILLE, is due out in Fall 2003

Reviews

Danner, a physician's assistant in Oregon, offers a first novel that can be seen as a story of redemption. Many of its characters have suffered outward violence or inner doubts but have overcome or at least learned to live with their difficulties. Although much of the book consists of internal musing and emotion, its setting in a small hospital in an Indian village 10,000 feet up in the Himalayas is as striking as some of the action. Mary, a U.S. physician, comes to the hospital to continue the work of her husband, recently killed in an accident. After an uncomfortable and sobering journey, she arrives to find a note from the hospital's founding physician informing her that he will be away indefinitely. Alone except for a few local nurses and helpers, Mary immerses herself in medical and surgical activities, despite the hospital's rudimentary equipment and her lack of knowledge of the local language. Melding the humaneness of his characters and the harsh beauty of their surroundings, Danner produces a quiet, sympathetic, increasingly appealing story. William Beatty
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Edition details

• Publisher: Crispin/Hammer
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970640595
• ISBN 13: 9780970640598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256