The sickness
By: Alberto Barrera Tyszka ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
Contributors: Costa, Margaret Jull
Publisher: Maclehose Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9781906694500
Subjects: Physicians; Cancer; Hypochondria; Stalkers; Fathers and sons; Fiction; Patients; Family relationships
Work titles: Enfermedad
Description: Ernesto Duran is convinced that he is sick. Ever since he separated from his wife he has been presenting symptoms of an illness which he believes is killing him. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him.