![]() ![]() Here to talk about her book and career is author S.K. The journey the two of them embark on together must begin with love, Rune thinks. Love from A to Z is a romance novel set in Quatar. This is, after all, his own nightmare, though in his dream the culprit is always leprosy. ![]() Of Digby’s hands Verghese writes: “The spectacle of these ruined tools of a surgeon’s livelihood fills Rune with sorrow. These passages provide some of the book’s most moving and revelatory moments. When Digby, badly burned in an accidental fire, flees to a remote leprosy sanctuary to recover, he is slowly repaired there by the (marvelously drawn) Swedish village doctor Rune Orqvist. Verghese folds in major players, guiding them toward each other: the irresistible Digby Kilgour, a young medical graduate, migrates in 1933 from a nightmare childhood in Glasgow to Madras, India, to gain surgical experience: “The sight of suffering is familiar its language transcends all borders.” Medical crises incite action throughout the novel, allowing Verghese to tap into his deep experience and endearingly humane philosophy. ![]()
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