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TELL HER EVERYTHING - MIRZA WAHEED GEBUNDEN

[A] a powerful tale of guilt and betrayal…Tell Her Everything…is about a doctor who betrays the
principle of empathy. But it is through the empathic act of writing – of putting pen to paper
and reckoning with those who have suffered at his hands – that he succeeds in recovering his
humanity and coming back from his own living death…plotted with great care.” —The Guardian Tell
Her Everything is a layered recital of intricately woven hauntings  decisions  and
confessions...[A] story that is at once haunting  tender  and gripping. — Chicago Review of
Books A doctor working in a prosperous Middle Eastern city finds himself placed in an
unconscionable situation ... As he prepares for a visit from his long-estranged daughter  Dr K.
a retired surgeon enjoying the comforts of retirement in London  rehearses the conversation he
will finally have with her. It’s been years since he has seen her  and he has spent much of
that time polishing the confession he wants to make to her. But as her visit draws closer  he
finds his memories to be freshly torturous. He recalls leaving his childhood home in India to
accept a dream job  working for a state hospital in a prosperous oil monarchy. Suddenly  he'd
had access to a lifestyle that he would never have had back home. Money and success came
quickly . . . as long as he performed certain tasks for the state. The price for that proved
steep and often unbearable  especially to a wife and daughter who watch him walk the perilous
path of lifelong ambition. Tell Her Everything is a tense  visceral  and moving novel about a
father's love for his daughter  and about a medical professional grappling with remorse  shame
and despair. Recalling the work of Ishiguro  Coetzee and Kafka  it asks: Where does one draw
the line between empathy and sacrifice? Between integrity and survival? Between prosperity and
love?

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