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02218aam a22003498i 4500 001 21D70C66BB6011EA94CB452497128E48 003 SILO 005 20200701010008 008 190930s2020 onc 000 f eng 020 $a 1770414657 020 $a 9781770414655 (softcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1121135406 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d BYN $d IW5 $d SILO 042 $a lac 055 0 $a PS8631.E565 $b B58 2020 082 0 $a C813/.6 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Pennie, Ross, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Bitter paradise / $c Ross Pennie. 260 $a Toronto, Ontario, Canada : $b ECW Press, $c 2020. 263 $a 2005 300 $a 350 pages 23 cm 490 0 $a Dr. Zol Szabo medical mystery ; $v 5 520 $a "After weeks of torture at the hands of Syria's secret police, the bombing of his villa in the ancient city of Aleppo, and the murder of his daughter, trauma surgeon Dr. Hosam Khousa flees his fractured homeland with his wife and son. They make their way to Canada as refugees, where Hosam is forced to trade his prestigious scalpel for a barber's humble clippers. Though he aches to regain his once-prominent surgical career, cutting hair in Hamilton, Ontario, seems a safe way to make a living, until a fellow Syrian is slashed to death in the barbershop. The ensuing gangland vendetta entangles Hosam and threatens his family. At the same time, epidemic investigators Dr. Zol Szabo and Natasha Sharma are battling an outbreak of vaccine-resistant polio that has struck the city with terrifying fury. When Hosam visits a friend clinging to life in the intensive care unit, he spots something that might help the investigation but will ruin his chance of retaking his place in the operating theater. The Great White North is not the sanctuary he expected, but it's a bitter paradise he must learn to navigate."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Torture $z Syria $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Refugees $z Syria $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Gangs $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Poliomyelitits $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Syria $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200701010319.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=21D70C66BB6011EA94CB452497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search