by Samuel Shem · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433908759
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«La Casa de Dios» is the contemporary fiction novel by Samuel Shem, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (472 pages, in Spanish).
A novel of black humour and comedy of the absurd that follows Roy Basch and other young doctors during their internship year at a prestigious hospital nicknamed the House of God. Amid grotesque episodes, the interns discover illness and death, the imposture of the medical system and the lessons of a cynical superior.
Volume 405 of the Panorama de narrativas collection. Includes a prologue by John Updike; translation by Jesús Zulaika Goicoechea. The original work was published in 1978.
A cult classic for medical students and professionals, and also for readers of satire and black humour.
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.
