The Hospital

by Ahmed Bouanani

Book Overview

"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive..." So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani's own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811225763
• ISBN13: 9780811225762
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.9"