The good doctor - Damon Galgut

A powerful, taut and intense tale of a
friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and
disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa. When Laurence Waters arrives at his new
post at a deserted rural hospital, staff physician Frank Eloff is
instantly suspicious. Laurence is everything Frank is not-young,
optimistic, and full of big ideas. The whole town is beset with new
arrivals and the return of old faces. Frank reestablishes a liaison with
a woman, one that will have unexpected consequences. A self-made
dictator from apartheid days is rumored to be active in cross-border
smuggling, and a group of soldiers has moved in to track him, led by a
man from Frank's own dark past. Laurence sees only possibilities-but in a
world where the past is demanding restitution from the present, his
ill-starred idealism cannot last.