Dr K

by Mirza Waheed, Anatole Pons (Translator)

Dr K, seul dans son appartement avec vue sur la Tamise, attend - et imagine - la visite de sa fille unique. Après des années de distance, le temps est venu de tout lui raconter, de revenir sur certaines zones d'ombre de sa vie, sur des choix qui le hantent. Médecin formé en Inde puis en Angleterre, il a oeuvré, dans un pays jamais nommé, à transformer en actes chirurgicaux les terribles châtiments prescrits par la loi. Mais avait-il vraiment le choix?

222 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 13, 2022

About the author

Mirza Waheed was born and brought up in Kashmir. He is a novelist and essayist. His debut novel, The Collaborator, was an international bestseller and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award and the Shakti Bhatt Prize, and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize. It has recently been adapted for film. His second novel, The Book of Gold Leaves (2014), was shortlisted for the DSC Prize and longlisted for the Folio Prize. His third novel, Tell Her Everything, won the Hindu Literary Prize in 2019. His new novel, Maryam & Son, will be published in 2026.

Waheed has written for The Guardian, Granta, Guernica, The New York Times, and the BBC, among others.