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• The coroner's lunch

  

  But when the wife of a party leader turns up dead and the bodies of tortured vietnamese soldiers start bobbing to the surface of a laotian lake, all eyes turn to siribut the job's not that bad and siri quickly settles into a routine of studying outdated medical texts, scrounging scarce supplies, and circumnavigating bureaucratic red tape to arrive at justicethe monarchy has been deposed, the communist pathet lao have taken overfaced with official cover-ups and an emerging international crisis, the doctor enlists old friends, village shamans, forest spirits, dream visits from the dead - and even the occasional bit of medical deduction - to solve the crimes see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe fact that the recently departed are prone to pay siri the odd, unwanted nocturnal visit turns out to be an added bonus in his new line of workmost of the educated class has fled, but dr siri paiboun, a paris-trained doctor remainsoxfam bookshop cheltenham laosand so this 72-year-old physician is appointed state coroner, despite having no training, equipment, experience or even inclination for the job

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