num_pages: 432
description: Bruno Sachs is a country doctor who makes house calls and feels deeply for his patients. There are broken bones, unwanted pregnancies, people without the will to live, a friend dying of cancer. His pity for his fellow creatures is both his motivating force and his own untreatable condition. Among the deaths, love affairs, and small town gossip, a love story emerges at the heart of the novel-between Dr. Sachs and a young woman upon whom he once performed an abortion.The Case of Dr. Sachs is a novel filled with voices of silent suffering and arias of quiet joy, and one dedicated to the notion that literature, like medicine, can save lives.
language: English
title: The Case of Doctor Sachs: A Novel
titlecomplete: The Case of Doctor Sachs: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Medicine, France, French Literature, Roman, Novels, 20th Century
ratings_count: 452
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Prix du Livre Inter, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Seven Stories Press