Triage (novel)
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| Author | Scott Anderson |
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| Cover artist | Steve Rawlings |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Scribner |
| Publication date | 1998 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 235 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-330-36854-0 (paperback edition) |
Triage is a 1998 novel by Scott Anderson. Triage focuses on the psychological effects of war on the photo journalist protagonist, Mark.
[edit] Plot summary
Mark, a young war photographer, returns to New York after being slightly injured in a Third World brushfire war. He had spent a few frightening days in the recovery ward of a dilapidated, overcrowded hospital, but can this explain his sleeplessness, distraction, his wounds' inability to heal? Elena, Mark's Spanish girlfriend, grows more and more alarmed by his strange behavior, while she also tries to calm her pregnant friend Diane, whose photographer husband has gone missing in the same war zone. As Mark continues to deteriorate, Elena's grandfather sweeps onto the scene. Joaquin is the last person from whom Elena wants to accept help; once very close to him, she ended all contact after learning of his role in "purifying" conscience-stricken officers after the Spanish Civil War. In treating Mark, Joaquin sees a way back into his granddaughter's life, and, despite Elena's disapproval, the two men begin to forge an extraordinary relationship. Eventually, all three travel to Joaquin's manor home in southern Spain so that Mark can find a safe haven in which to heal. It is in this romantic and haunted Spanish valley where both men's secrets surface with life-altering force and where Mark and Elena attempt to know and love each other again, with the discovery of her grandfather's secrets of the incurrables and of Mark's knowing that Colin is dead and that he could not save him.
[edit] Characters in Triage
Mark - The protagonist; a war photojournalist dealing with the memories of his time in Kurdistan
Elena - Mark's Spanish girlfriend
Joaquin - Elena's estranged grandfather, a former psychiatrist who treated soldiers dealing with the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Colin – Mark’s war partner and friend
Diane – Colins wife and Elenas friend
[edit] Sources, references, external links, quotations
- Triage By Valerie Sutherland Published in Education Age 5th May 2001
