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The Doctor's House

(1996)
A collection of stories by

 
 
In the late 1930s, a young boy named Josef is given shelter in the house of a Jewish Doctor in Warsaw. Entranced by the doctor's teenaged daughter, Josef lives a charmed existence there - until the arrival of a cousin from America disrupts all their lives. A novel in miniature, The Doctor's House is at once realistic and magical.

"Breathtaking. Fagan has dropped all superfluous language and description. The Doctor's House radiates from its small canvas." - Globe and Mail

"The artfully compressed The Doctor's House is a striking recasting of form." - Now

"Very, very rich." - The Arts Tonight (CBC Radio)



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