Behind the Mask

Once again, Yusuf Dawood strides across the literary landscape he is so familiar with. He relates some of his most interesting and challenging true-life cases with a candor rarely found on our creative scene.

The stories are fascinating and captivating, capturing the intensity and feeling in the operating theatre and the wards; proving that, sometimes, truth can be stranger than fiction. The characters are vibrant and alive; and the atmosphere tense and yet appealing. With his pen and scalpel, Dawood takes the reader behind the mask to give an intimate insight into the trials and tribulations of his patients and the anguish and agony of the surgeon.

Yusuf K. Dawood is a renowned author and a long-serving columnist with the Sunday Nation.

Behind the Mask concludes the trilogy which started with Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, whose sequel was Off my Chest.