Book review: Rudan I: The Breeze: A Story of Exploration, Art, Love and Faith. Edinburgh: International Society of Global Health, 2024, pp. 1–112. ISBN 978-1-9999564-6-2.

The Breeze: A Story of Exploration, Art, Love and Faith is, on its surface, a compact literary work: twelve short chapters that alternate between autobiographical memory and speculative allegory, moving from New York streets and hospital corridors to a metaphysical archipelago inhabited by "the dead".However, to read it only as a novel, an aesthetically shaped narrative about adolescence, desire, vocation, and belief, would miss what the book is really doing.The Breeze is also a sustained meditation on the epistemology of discovery.It considers how curiosity survives social conditioning; then, how questions are domesticated by authority; from this, it studies how meaning is assembled from fragments of experience; and finally, why the pursuit of the unknown remains a deeply human compulsion, even when it is inconvenient, inefficient, or even socially disapproved.