TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vikram Paralkar
TI  - AFFLICTIONS
SN  - 9789353024604
U1  - F 
PY  - 2014////01/01
CY  - UP
PB  -  HarperCollins India
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Medical libraries Fiction
KW  - Imaginary books and libraries
KW  - Diseases Handbooks, manuals, etc. Fiction
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Medical libraries
N1  - Summary:
Shadowing an elderly librarian on his first day at the great Central Library, Maximo is thrilled to get a peek at the exclusive Encyclopedia of Medicine. It's 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? As Maximo soon discovers, medicine at the Central Library may be more than he bargained for. 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
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