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The Waiting Room

Leah Kaminsky

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English
Vintage
01 September 2015
Weaving a vivid day-in-the-life narrative through a tapestry of memory, love and loss, The Waiting Room captures the sights, sounds, accents and animosities, of a country overflowing with stories.

The Waiting Room follows Dina, a family doctor living in the melting pot city of Haifa, Israel in the late 90s. Born in the Jewish enclave in Australia of St Kilda, 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. But 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 love to leave on the other side of the world.

Leah 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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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 157mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   404g
ISBN:   9780857986221
ISBN 10:   0857986228
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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