Craig Joseph Danner
Autor/a de Himalayan Dhaba
Obres de Craig Joseph Danner
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 20th c.
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Oregon, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Mount Hood, Oregon, USA
- Educació
- The Evergreen State College, B.A., 1985
- Professions
- doctor
- Premis i honors
- Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Awards, shortlisted, 2002
- Biografia breu
- In 1991, Danner and his wife sold their house, medical practices, and possessions to travel to a remote village in the Indian Himalayas to help a gifted Indian surgeon -- in exchange for teaching them how to provide health care using basic tools and medicines.
"This man was doing amazing things with very little in the way of equipment and modern medicines, and we wanted to learn from him. Unfortunately, when we got there, he had left three days earlier, for a nine month training program in Uganda," explained Danner.
Language and cultural barriers didn't stop the adventurous duo from forging ahead, often by themselves. Not all their work was as successful as the all-night surgery. On one occasion, they helplessly watched a young woman die of an infection they could have treated back home, and, in another series of cases, they tried, in vain, to find a cure for a mysterious epidemic of kidney failure that killed three boys.
Membres
Ressenyes
A newly-widowed woman physician goes to the small Himalayan town her husband loved, and works in thier hospital. Spiritual and humanistic, with good picture of life in this mountain village, and a lively plot.
Llistes
All Things India (1)
Premis
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 99
- Popularitat
- #191,538
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 5
It is a rare author who can create morally gray, imperfect characters that the reader still cares about. I was even concerned for the "villian" of the story.
Also, I did not find this to be one of those stories where a Westerner goes to India to "find themselves". Mary went to India because she had no other place to be. She does struggle with her purpose there, but Himalayan Dhaba lacks the preachiness, predictability, and somewhat racist stereotypes of those other tales.
Overall, it was an enjoyable read.
Notice: the story depicts sexual assault, violence, surgical procedures, and tragic deaths-- It is not overly graphic, however, but I feel is included to show real life in the area for better or worse.… (més)