# Operation Wandering Soul

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- Book: [Operation Wandering Soul](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/operation-wandering-soul) ([Operation Wandering Soul.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers/operation-wandering-soul.md))
- Authors: [Richard Powers](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-powers)
- Publisher: atlantic_books
- ISBN: 978-18-4887-143-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2010-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED BEWILDERMENT AND THE OVERSTORY 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 a therapist – are charged with prolonging their lives using storytelling and make-believe alone. Operation Wandering Soul is a novel 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