Waiting Room

Author(s): Leah Kaminsky

Contemporary

Compelling, moving and memorable. Graeme Simsion. The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities of a country overflowing with stories. Dina is a family doctor living in the melting-pot city of Haifa, Israel. Born in Australia in a Jewish enclave of Melbourne to Holocaust survivors, Dina left behind a childhood marred by misery and the tragedies of the past to build a new life for herself in the Promised Land. After starting a family of her own, she finds her life falling apart beneath the demands of her eccentric patients, a marriage starting to fray, the ever-present threat of terrorist attack and the ghost of her mother, haunting her with memories that Dina would prefer to leave on the other side of the world. Leah Kaminsky plumbs the depths of her characters' memories, both the sweet and the heart-wrenching, reaching back in a single climactic day through six decades and across three continents to uncover a truth that could save Dina's sanity - and her life.

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Leah Kaminsky is an award-winning physician and writer. She is Poetry and Fiction Editor at the Medical Journal of Australia and Online Editor at Hunger Mountain. She conceived and edited Writer, M.D., an anthology of contemporary doctor-writers. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom Novel Writing Competition. Leah has been the Damianis' physician since Massimo was born and was the first person to be alerted to the fact that there was some kind of problem when he was an infant. In September, her first novel The Waiting Room, will be published.

General Fields

  • : 9780857986221
  • : Random House Australia
  • : Vintage (Australia)
  • : 0.398
  • : April 2015
  • : 23.50 cmmm X 15.50 cmmm X 2.50 cmmm
  • : Australia
  • : September 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 304
  • : en
  • : 915
  • : Paperback
  • : Leah Kaminsky