Rivka Galchen

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Rivka Galchen received her MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Her fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Scientific American and The New York Times. This is her first novel.

Rivka Galchen in the news

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES

‘Last December, a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my wife…’ Dr Leo Liebenstein is convinced that his wife has disappeared and that she has been replaced by a double.

Publication date: UK 5th Mar 2009

ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES [ePub edition]

Already much praised and described as ‘playful yet profound, Murakami-esque yet original…heartbreaking…stunning…an unforgettable debut’ (Vendela Vida), Atmospheric Disturbances is one of the most widely anticipated fiction debuts of 2008.

Publication date: UK 4th Sep 2008