Summary: A respected physician in Cordoba, Spain, receives a mysterious phone call – a request to attend to the ailing daughter of a wealthy but secretive family in Madrid. What seems to be a routine house call quickly turns into a disturbing labyrinth of intrigue and mystery, and a fight for the girl’s life, in Birgitte Rasine‘s novel “Verse in Arabic.” The outcome of the battle will impact the doctor – and the journalist interviewing him – in ways neither imagined. Set against the unstable political climate of General Franco’s Spain in the 1940s, and based on a bizarre real-life incident that remains unsolved to this day, “Verse in Arabic” twists medical ethics and psychosocial tyranny into a cord that pulls at your heart from both ends. More below the media player. Listen to Birgitte Rasine The Indie Author Life A writer must write. But what is she to do if writing means, well, writing? As in, cursive penmanship on a pad of paper? In a recent blog post Birgitte Rasine tells of her visit to the Caribbean island of Providencia – and her decision to leave all 21st century writers’ tools behind: I wrote everywhere. In the airport, on the [...]Similar Posts:Inside A Successful Writer’s ImaginationA Stunning Story of Two Women and the Bond They ForgeKeep on Truckin’, MamaWar, Holocaust, Rebellion – and Dragons and RunicsWhat a Pain It Is, Being a Messiah The post Can a Patient’s Silence Kill the Doctor? appeared first on The Bookcast.
