The brilliant satirical debut novel from author Adam Steiner.
"There are many derelicts, their friends and families who will be glad of Steiner's care and attention to detail, indeed to his writing this book in the first place. He has the rare ability to remain objective in the face of terrible truths which many would rather ignore." - Dan Duggan, Luxury of the Dispossessed
Nathan Finewax is a cleaner in a hospital steadily falling apart. He's working on a ward where staff cheat, lie and steal to get ahead, where targets, death tolls and finance overrule patient care, and every day the same mistakes are repeated in a seemingly unstoppable wave of failures.
Nathan is sucked deeper into the hospital routine as he dreams of escape, trying to avoid one day becoming a patient himself in this house of horrors.
Based on the author's experience working in the NHS, Politics of the Asylum is a nightmare vision of the modern healthcare system. Adam Steiner's challenging debut is a novel for our times, and an emotive and highly original story of people trying to do more than simply exist.
Genre: General Fiction
"There are many derelicts, their friends and families who will be glad of Steiner's care and attention to detail, indeed to his writing this book in the first place. He has the rare ability to remain objective in the face of terrible truths which many would rather ignore." - Dan Duggan, Luxury of the Dispossessed
Nathan Finewax is a cleaner in a hospital steadily falling apart. He's working on a ward where staff cheat, lie and steal to get ahead, where targets, death tolls and finance overrule patient care, and every day the same mistakes are repeated in a seemingly unstoppable wave of failures.
Nathan is sucked deeper into the hospital routine as he dreams of escape, trying to avoid one day becoming a patient himself in this house of horrors.
Based on the author's experience working in the NHS, Politics of the Asylum is a nightmare vision of the modern healthcare system. Adam Steiner's challenging debut is a novel for our times, and an emotive and highly original story of people trying to do more than simply exist.
Genre: General Fiction
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