The Insult

The Insult
ISBN-10
1408833182
ISBN-13
9781408833186
Category
Blindness
Pages
406
Language
English
Published
2012-08-01
Publisher
A&C Black
Author
Rupert Thomson

Description

One of David Bowie's Top 100 Books, as chosen in the Independent It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out. When he wakes up he is blind. His neurosurgeon, Bruno Visser, tells him that his loss of sight is permanent and that he must expect to experience shock, depression, self-pity, even suicidal thoughts before his rehabilitation is complete. But it doesn't work out quite like that. One spring evening, while Martin is practising in the clinic gardens with his new white cane, something miraculous happens ...

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