The Wounds of the Dead

• The story follows a surgeon through one extraordinary night as have been fatal. Asked to restore them to life before dawn, he becomes caught in a strange sequence he confronts the impossible. The novel combines realistic surgical detail with metaphysical and fantastical elements

• Vikram Paralkar is an Indian-born physician and writer. His fiction often combines medical settings with philosophical, surreal and fantastical ideas.

A surgeon working at a neglected rural clinic encounters a family whose injuries should have been fatal. Asked to restore them to life before dawn, he becomes caught in a strange sequence of events that forces him to confront questions about life, death, responsibility and destiny