Latitudes of Longing Format:Hardcover the role of medicine (physician

the role of medicine (physician

until Matilda cries tears—bright colorful tears

Now the fiends must be vanquished

The African elephant snaps its ears

It's a heat that sears through you yet doesn't burn

Latitudes of Longing Format:Hardcover the role of medicine (physicianA spellbinding work of literature, Latitudes of Longing follows the interconnected lives of characters searching for true intimacy. The novel sweeps across India, from an island, to a valley, a city, and a snow desert, to tell a love story of epic proportions. We follow a scientist who studies trees and a clairvoyant who speaks to them; a geologist working to end futile wars over a glacier; octogenarian lovers; a mother struggling to free her