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- ISBN 9781068300165
- Dimensions: 120 x 180mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Les Fugitives
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Present-day Minneapolis. Dr Ana Jovanovic, oncologist, goes against the
advice of her hospital's tumour board and schedules her patient Jonathan
for exploratory surgery. She is proved right when the surgery reveals
that he has cancer. But when tragedy strikes,
Ana is sent into a tailspin. She takes an unplanned sabbatical, hoping
to rediscover herself outside her dual, devouring roles of doctor and
mother to fifteen-year-old Maggie. Now sharply aware of her own
mortality, the doctor is confronted with decisions about quality of life
and quality of death.
Brian Willems was born in Minnesota in 1972. He has lived in Croatia since 1996 and now teaches literature at the University of Split. His poetry and prose have appeared in The Antioch Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Things Magazine, Prague Literary Review and elsewhere. He is the author of several academic books, most recently Sham Ruins: A User's Guide (2022), and is co-editor, with Nicol Barria-Asenjo and Slavoj Zizek, of Global Manifestos for the 21st Century, with a foreword by Yanis Varoufakis (2023). His first novella, Henry, Henry, was published by Zero Books. He also translates from Croatian into English and is co-editor of LOOK Editions.
