The Afflictions by Vikram Paralkar (2nd Edition)

FIC035000 FICTION / MedicalFIC061000 FICTION / Magical RealismFIC000000 FICTION / GeneralPrint ISBN: 978-1-941360-35-4Digital ISBN: 978-1-941360-40-8Paperback, 5.25"x8", 3.5" french flaps • 160 pages • Case: ~60 Ships September 1, 2020 The legendary Encyclopedia of Medicine is a dizzying collection of maladies: an amnesia that causes everyone you’ve ever met to forget you exist, while you remain perfectly, painfully aware of your history. A wound that grows with each dark thought or evil deed you commit but shrinks with every act of kindness. A disease that causes your body to imitate death, stopping your heart, cooling your blood. Will the fit pass before they bury you—or after? The Afflictions is a magical compendium of pseudo-diseases, an encyclopedia of archaic medicine written by a contemporary physician and scientist. Little by little, these bizarre and mystical afflictions frame an eternal struggle: between human desire and the limits of bodily existence. First published in Engl