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Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's - a central London hospital of more than average decrepitude - does his level best to staunch the flow of mental illness. But Mukti is not a happy man, beset by thwarted ambition and sexual frustration, he now finds himself in thrall to the more successful and urbane Dr Zack Busner, consultant psychiatrist at Heath Hospital, and an originator of the once modish Quantity Theory of Insanity. Why is it that Busner seems so intent on fostering a professional relationship with Mukti? Is it his way of putting his junior colleague in his place? Or is Busner - as Mukti begins to suspect - a member of a sinister cabal? And what about the schizophrenic patients Busner refers to Mukti for his opinion, are they merely sick people, or in fact human weapons in a bizarre psychological duel?

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Fiction: special features Short stories

• Full title: Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe
• Author: Will Self
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780747565314
• ISBN: 0747565317
• ID: 04672963
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 414 g
• Dimensions: 440 × 208 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. January 2004

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