The Hospital Condition:Very Good Sin’s earliest work and his

Sin’s earliest work and his series

Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind

The end draws near

in part through a telling of his own family's history

The Hospital Condition:Very Good Sin’s earliest work and hisWhen I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive So begins Ahmed Bouananis arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouananis own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming