Open Heart

This novel tells the story of Dr Benjamin Rubin, an ambitious intern. When Rubin is unexpectedly selected to accompany the hospital director and his wife to India to retrieve their ailing daughter, his experience there awakens an erotic passion in him. Open Heart is a psychological tour de fource about love and the nature of man's soul. From the opening lines of this first-person narrative, the reader is propelled into the mind of Dr. Benjamin Rubin, an ambitious young internist, who is jockeying for position with the hospital's top surgeons. But it isn't until Benjy learns that his position has been terminated, and that he has been selected to accompany the hospital administrator and his wife to India to retrieve their ailing daughter, that Yehoshua sets his hero on a journey of self-discovery.