by Samuel Shem · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422676959
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«La casa de Dios» is the black comedy novel about the medical world by Samuel Shem, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (558 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows a group of brilliant interns during their internship year at a prestigious hospital. With black humor and satire, Samuel Shem portrays the exhausting healthcare system and the emotional toll on young doctors struggling to survive and keep their sanity. The narrator is Roy Bash.
Originally published in English as «The House of God» in 1978, this Spanish edition is from 1999. It is the first book in the «House of God» series.
For readers of contemporary fiction and black humor, with an interest in the medical world and social satire.
Samuel Shem is the pen name of the American psychiatrist Stephen Joseph Bergman. His main works are The House of God and Mount Misery, both fictional but close-to-real first-hand descriptions of the training of doctors in the United States.
