num_pages: 512
description: A young Israeli intern vying for the position of surgeon learns that his internship has been terminated and he has been chosen to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife on a trip to India. There, the couple intend to retrieve their ailing daughter and bring her back to Israel. The long journey awakens urges in the young doctor that will threaten his carefully contained world.
language: English
title: Open Heart
titlecomplete: Open Heart (Harvest Book)
genres: Jewish, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Israel
ratings_count: 369
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: HarperVia