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After a hair-raising journey, Dr. Mary Davis arrives in a remote Himalayan village with just a backpack and a box of medicines. Expecting to work with a talented Indian surgeon, she finds instead that he is missing and she is now the only doctor within a hundred miles. When an injured tourist stumbles into her overcrowded clinic, he triggers a series of events that connects an unusual mix of characters: Phillip, the spoiled son of a British diplomat; Antone, an aging addict who attempts to kidnap him; Meena, a local village girl who embarks on an improbable rescue; and Amod, the lonely waiter in the local dhaba, who secretly looks after Mary.
Steeped with surprising humor and harrowing detail, Himalayan Dhaba reveals a startling variety of human strengths.
Steeped with surprising humor and harrowing detail, Himalayan Dhaba reveals a startling variety of human strengths.
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In Craig Joseph Danner's engaging and compassionate debut novel, Himalayan Dhaba, an American seeking direction in her life reluctantly accepts the position of town doctor to a remote Himalayan village. Reeling from the death of her husband, Mary Davis travels to the north Indian village where he once volunteered. She has agreed to assist his mentor, Dr. Vargeela, in his practice, but upon her arrival, Mary finds the doctor absent for an undetermined time and his outdated, overwhelmed hospital dependent upon her skills to remain open. Emotionally fragile and underqualified, Mary struggles with her sense of obligation to the town and her mounting self-doubt, exhaustion, and depression. She soon meets some of the town's colorful assemblage of tourists, locals, and expatriates: Amod, a lonely villager and waiter who falls in love with Mary; Ravi, a handsome Canadian visiting nearby family; Phillip, the spoiled son of an English ambassador, who enters the hospital with a broken back, the result of a mugging; and Antone, an aging drug dealer and heroin addict who kidnaps Phillip and plans to offer him for ransom. Throughout, Danner explores the ways these characters' lives are altered and united by seemingly random events and the commonalities of experience that transcend language and cultural differences.
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Danner, who based the book on his own experience as a doctor in the Himalayas, has created an emotionally mature and highly detailed novel, offering personal insight into Dr. Mary's search for identity and community. The novel has a strong sense of vibrancy and authenticity, conveying a comprehensive view of the beauty and severity of life in the Himalayas, such as the "beggars with their pleading palms and exudative skin disease" and the mountains with "shoulders hunched like mourners gathered round a grave, all dressed in black." Harsh in its honesty but ultimately life-affirming, Himalayan Dhaba reflects the hard-earned wisdom gained from a difficult but worthwhile experience. --Ross Doll
Craig Danner is a native Oregonian and fourth generation bootmaker. He now makes his living as a Physician Assistant, practicing medicine in the shadow of Mount Hood. His next novel, THE FIRES OF EDGARVILLE, is due out in Fall 2003
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- PublisherCrispin/Hammer
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0970640595
- ISBN 13 9780970640598
- BindingHardcover
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