A constellation of vital phenomena : a novel /
Anthony Marra.
- 1st ed.
- Toronto : Vintage, c2014, c2013.
- 396 p. ; 20 cm.
In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
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Women physicians--Fiction. Hospitals.
Chechnia (Russia)--History--Civil War, 1994---Fiction.