Right of Thirst

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Right of Thirst

A Novel

Fiction: general and literary War, combat and military adventure fiction

Author: Frank Huyler

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Language: English

Published by: HarperCollins e-books

Published on: 10th April 2009

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9780061864315


Summary

A grieving doctor seeks redemption as a foreign relief worker—only to be caught in the fog of war—in this "vivid and compassionate" novel (Kirkus).

Plot

Shattered by his wife''s death, and by his own role in it, successful cardiologist Charles Anderson volunteers to assist with earthquake relief in an impoverished Islamic country in a constant state of conflict with its neighbor. But when the refugees he''s come to help do not appear and artillery begins to fall in the distance along the border, the story takes an unexpected turn.

Themes

This haunting, resonant tour de force about one man''s desire to live a moral life offers a moving exploration of the tensions between poverty and wealth, the ethics of intervention, the deep cultural differences that divide the world, and the essential human similarities that unite it.

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