God Was Busy With the Plumbing
An English translation of the Ukrainian absurdist literary novella about Jonathan Swanson, a former artist turned handyman, whose quiet pre-Christmas days collapse into a strange hospital night of plumbing, doctors, prophets, Brahms, and possible secret space programs. A darkly funny story about loneliness, faith, work, the body, snow, and the small mercies that remain when the world cannot be fully repaired.
Available formats: Kindle, paperback.
About this book
Jonathan Swanson is a former artist turned handyman. He fixes other people’s pipes, sockets, doors, and boilers, while his own life has been standing face-first against the wall for years.
A few days before Christmas, Jonathan wants only quiet: tea, a book, a walk through the park, and no emergency calls. Instead, he is sent to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where a serious plumbing problem has begun rising from below.
Over the course of one strange night, Jonathan meets a prophetic park caretaker, surgeons in bear and elephant masks, doctors who joke about death, a technician who hears Brahms inside a pipe, and a neighbor who may have once belonged to a secret space program.
God Was Busy With the Plumbing is an absurdist literary novella about loneliness, faith, the body, work, snow, and small forms of mercy.
A darkly funny story about a world that cannot be fully repaired, but still needs someone to try.
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