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Editura Universitara Overnight flight - Angela Madalina Lazar

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Publisher: Editura Universitara

Author: Angela Madalina Lazar

Edition: I

Pages: 268

Publisher year: 2022

ISBN: 978-606-28-1506-6

DOI: 10.5682/9786062815066

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Written in an emotional, disturbing, but also unexpectedly fresh and innovative style, Overnight flight is a novel about the fight against disease, cancer, suffering and liberation. At the same time, it is a book about love and betrayal, about passion, despair, wildness and dreaming.
Overnight flight is nothing but the path of healing, which each of the novel's characters, patients, doctors, people, come to identify with their own lives.
The main character, the doctor Gitte, transforms into a Seherezada of the north, bewitching the listeners with new and disturbing life stories, luring us to enter the temple of the human soul. Beyond the conventional therapeutic approach, Gitte gradually discovers, like the mother-of-pearl layers of an ancestral shell, people's secret dramas, their inner conflicts and dreams. He cannot cure the disease only by surgery, but by infiltrating even among the spiritual molecules of his patients, where suffering and disease are actually born.
Written by a surgeon, the novel Overnight flight is a book full of the unexpected, of suspense, unprecedented for literature, because it talks about the spiritual universe of patients in a troubled period of our existence, the "Era" of COVID.
ANGELA MADALINA LAZAR 

The novel on the medical theme, Overnight flight, wants to be an oasis beyond times and conventions. A world where the characters go in search and exploration of the spirit beyond suffering and destiny. An intersection of dreams. Absence calls you... to discover what is beyond it, because you desperately need the fabulous and the mysterious. "Sharpen your wings!" - as if the characters say - even if you don't know what's hiding beyond the clouds. In the end, life, as it appears to us, woven from despair and fire. A promise, an illusion? A spell? Like a Tarot game, where the characters draw a card, full of hope, but in the end they are happy to have escaped the immediate death. A world where the doctor becomes more, a confidant, a witness, but above all, a friend.
The novel Overnight flight is built around Gitte, the female doctor, who wakes up, sucked into the world of her patients, that she is no longer just a surgeon, but turns into a psychiatrist, a priest, a relative. A relative of the afflicted. The snake is not only the symbol of her healing path, but it proclaims the desperation of souls clinging to a last breath, a final promise, like the snake to a staff of Moses in the desert. Gitte gradually discovers the layers of the patients' dimension and understands that in the treatment of the disease, even oncological, in addition to the conventional medical approach, it is essential to have an equal dialogue with the spiritual depths of people, where the core of suffering actually comes from.
The novel begins with a prologue chapter - a unique and disturbing cinematic flash from the beginnings of Gitte's life to his last breath. Perhaps an apparent nonsense, because a main character seems to die from the beginning, during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. But it doesn't die. Being her best friend, the true narrator of the events, she brings back to life her overflowing and fascinating personality to live again, through the book, with her friends and patients, as if defying time, showing that life can sometimes become eternal. Beyond the constant characters of the novel, each chapter brings, from the stage of life, to dance in front of the reader, the story of some souls. The past intertwines with the present, the novel grows into another novel, and the mysterious characters lead you through their lives, as they are: apparently brutal and dull, but in reality masterful, miraculous. New, unexpected events turn into even more amazement and more spectacular during each chapter, because the ending surprises you, it comes completely and unexpectedly. The life of the book attracts you to read breathlessly. The lines heat up, challenge you to stay until the last revelation, until the last word. And thus, we find ourselves reincarnated in their lives - these curious and diverse characters who marked the life of Gitte and her friends, confidants. One by one, all kinds of lives appear before our eyes: under the sign of the Serpent constellation in the universe, we discover the story of a doctor who dies of cancer, apparently alone and misunderstood, but who reveals his surprise only at the end, when everyone becomes shocked and silent ; the doctor posing as a patient; the doctor, poison and medicine; the doctor - unique interpreter of what healing ultimately means, but also the way to it; a patient overwhelmed by religiosity, who is still waiting for deliverance, but which she finds unexpectedly from Gitte; nurses, equally overwhelmed by faith, seeing signs in icons torn by the wind and in extinguished candles; an elderly patient, apparently decrepit, who reveals in his attachment to an animal the loneliness and despair of several existing wounds under strange signs of predestination; the drama of several deceived women, including Gitte's friends and their spectacular revenge at the end; how do women see - do they have a different brain from men's?; and, as a counterpoint to women's perception of men, the drama of a tenor, distributed in a work by Bizet, who reveals himself from the frozen world of Lapland, in addition to the sadness of his own life, the sublime of his voice and life spreading over the infinity of the Northern Lights; about the experience of a doctor in a "colony" of treatment-resistant COVID‑19 patients and about parallel lives.
The novel is a fiction, but inspired by the overflow, the desperation and the beauty of patients, doctors and people. Although the plot is set in Sweden and other Nordic countries, it is a photograph: of the times, the sufferings and the life of people everywhere. In the end, the storyteller, Gitte's friend, like a Seherezade of the North, not knowing whether to continue the story or to interrupt it, because it has finished congealing, chooses a book. Then he blows out the candle. Overnight or for life. "Until next time, my dears!..."

Foreword / 7

Chapter I.
Prologue. "Wake up, you have a long way to go!" / 11

Chapter II.
From the memories of Gitte... Illusion or balm / 25

Chapter III.
From the cycle of memories. Confessions: Gitte and the story of some souls / 53

Chapter IV.
From Gitte's memories. Under the sign of the Serpent / 89

Chapter V.
In hiding. Lives of betrayal / 123

Chapter VI.
Norrsken / 159

Chapter VII.
Overnight flight / 211

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