Wonders of a Godless World by Andrew McGahan

Wonders of a Godless World

by Andrew McGahan

Allen & Unwin, 2009, [First Edition in PB], ISBN 9781741758092, large C-format paperback with wraps

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, sticker to front cover and half title page, uncreased spine, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“On a torpid tropical island, in a decaying mental institution, there lives an orphan, a young woman who cannot speak, or understand the speech of others, or even remember her own name.  Hers is a strange and isolated existence.  Until, that is, a new patient arrives at her hospital – a mysterious foreigner who is lost in an inexplicable coma.  Although he never wakes, the orphan becomes convinced that she can hear this foreigner speaking in her head.  He is cursed, he claims, with immortality.  And so begins a bizarre relationship between the two, a journey of discovery that will take them right around the world, and ultimately far beyond it.”