Daniel Mason: ‘I really don't want to write about my patients’

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Daniel Mason is the author of three acclaimed novels: The Piano Tuner, A Far Country and The Winter Soldier. He is also a practising psychiatrist and a professor in the department of psychiatry at Stanford University, California. His new book, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, is a collection of stories about endurance, derring-do and epiphany that takes the reader from Egypt in the time of the pharaohs to the Malay Archipelago in the 19th century – and many other places in between.

 

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