03257nam a2200553Ii 4500 DIGSIRLA0259 NyNyDIG 160401t20142015sp o 000 f spa d m o d cr ||||||||||| (OCoLC)946105614 DGITA eng rda pn DGITA 9788416208425 (eBook ; ePub) 8416208425 (eBook ; ePub) 9788416208432 (eBook ; Kindle) 8416208433 (eBook ; Kindle) 9788416120451 8416120455 spa eng PR6069.E3654 eBook 823.914 23 Self, Will, author. Umbrella. Spanish Un paraguas / Will Self ; traducción del inglés de Daniel Gascón. Edición en formato digital. Madrid : Siruela, diciembre de 2014 ©2015 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Nuevos tiempos ; 299 Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971, Umbrella exposes the twentieth century's technological searchlight as refracted through the dark glass of a long term mental institution. While making his first tours of the hospital at which he has just begun working, maverick psychiatrist Zachary Busner notices that many of the patients exhibit a strange physical tic: rapid, precise movements that they repeat over and over. One of these patients is Audrey Dearth, an elderly woman born in the slums of West London in 1890 who fell victim to the encephalitis lethargica sleeping sickness epidemic at the end of the First World War and has been in a coma ever since. Audrey's memories of a bygone Edwardian London, her lovers, involvement with early feminist and socialist movements, and, in particular, her time working in an umbrella shop, alternate with Busner's attempts to treat her condition and bring light to her clouded world. Busner's investigations into Audrey's illness lead to discoveries about her family that are shocking and tragic. And realising that Audrey is just one of a number of post-encephalitics scattered throughout the asylum, Busner becomes involved in an attempt to bring them back to life -- with wholly unforeseen consequences. Online resource; title from ePub title page (Digitalia, viewed April 8, 2016) Epidemic encephalitis Complications Fiction. Coma Patients Treatment Fiction. Psychiatric hospital patients England Fiction. Psychiatrists England Fiction. Catatonia Fiction. Electronic books. Gascón, Daniel, 1981- translator. Digitalia (Firm), distributor. Digitalia eBook Collection: Siruela Print version: Self, Will. Umbrella. Spanish. Paraguas. Madrid : Siruela, 2014 9788416120451 Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) ; 299. Digitalia Hispánica https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/31847/ Premium Collection: 2016 RAA 0 0 0 0 DEH BD-UIN BD-UIN 2025-04-25 0 2025-04-25 2025-04-25 RAA 240991 240991