Un hombre se interna en un hospital para hacerse unos estudios. Pronto sabrá que salir de allí no es tan sencillo. Una delirante telaraña burocrática lo va atrapando poco a poco. Con infinita paciencia, el internado se somete a las más absurdas situaciones. Para un electrocardiograma de esfuerzo, lo obligan a rasquetear la oficina del director. La enfermera jefe realiza violentas requisas en las habitaciones en busca de bombones de licor y otras substancias prohibidas. El chofer de la ambulancia le pide ayuda para cumplir con el reparto de prepizzas. Nadie se atreve a confesarle qué le sacaron en una misteriosa y equivocada operación quirúrgica. ¿Una crítica de la situación hospitalaria del país?¿Una metáfora sobre la condición humana? En todo caso, una divertida novela de humor negro, escrita con ritmo sostenido y un maravilloso sentido del disaparate como parte de la vida cotidiana. Un libro para recordar que leer no es un hábito sino una alegría, un placer, una pasión. Soy paciente se publica simúltaneamente en Estados Unidos y en Italia.
Author
Ana María Shua has earned a prominent place in contemporary Argentine fiction with the publication of many books in nearly every genre: novels, short stories, short short stories, poetry, children's fiction, books of humor and Jewish folklore, anthologies, film scripts, journalistic articles, and essays. Her award-winning works have been translated to many languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Islandic, Bulgarian, and Serbian, and her stories appear in anthologies throughout the world. Born in Buenos Aires in 1951, Shua began her literary career at the young age of sixteen with the publication of El sol y yo (The Sun and I), a volume of poetry which received two literary prizes in 1967. She went on to study at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires and worked as an advertising copywriter and journalist during the early stages of her career. Since then, she has received numerous national and international awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel El libro de los recuerdos(The Book of Memories, 1994). Her other novels include Soy Paciente (Patient, 1980), Los amores de Laurita (Laurita's Loves,1984), which was made into a movie, La muerte como efecto secundario (Death as a Side Effect, 1997). and El peso de la tentación (The Weight of Temptation, 2007). Her first four microfiction books have been published in Madrid in one volume: Cazadores de Letras, (Letter’s Hunters, 2009). Her complete short stories have been published as Que tengas una vida interesante (Buenos Aires, 2009). Her last microfiction book is Fenómenos de circo in 2011. She published Contra el tiempo, short-stories, in 2013
