The Last Hiccup: A Novel

"A strange and surprisingly touching novel about how people find good and evil where they look for them" (Booklist).

In 1930s Russia, an eight-year-old boy named Vladimir is suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon finds himself spirited away to a Moscow hospital by the famous physician Sergei Namestikov, who puts him through a series of extraordinary—and often bizarre—treatments in an effort to find a cure.

Then Sergei's chief medical rival, the brilliant Alexan...