Operation Wandering Soul

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
In the paediatrics ward of a public hospital, a group of sick children is gathering. The surrogate parents of this band — a tired, overworked surgical resident and his physiotherapist — are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone.
Operation Wandering Soul is a story about imagination and memory. At once a social indictment and an intensely emotional account of intimate need, it asks how we might keep alive a little longer the vanishing narratives of childhood.
'Richard Powers is the most intellectually stimulating novelist at work in the English language today' Daily Telegraph