Strength in What Remains (Random House Reader's Circle)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (936 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812977610 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
slb said A Story You Won't Forget. Strength in What Remains is a remarkable and engrossing story, which is beautifully written. Kidder finds the right balance between the hopeful and uplifting aspects of the narrative and those that are tragic and frustrating. This must have been a difficult task, because many of Deo's experiences are. Determination Strength In What Remains: A Journey Of Remembrance And Forgetting tells the story of Deo, a refugee from Burundi, and tells of the nightmarish genocides that took place in that country and Rwanda in the early 1990s. The author could have, I am sure, included loads of sensationally gory details, but h. M. Shores said Another remarkable life. Kidder, once again, draws the story of a remarkable life so we are able to make the connections ourselves--to see how so many people and things came together in this life of misery and dedication that leaves one with a sense of fulfillment and meaning.
But above all, I think, this is a book about coming to terms with memories. His story has a denoument that even now amazes me. That is, he saw there might be an answer for what troubled him most about the world, an answer that lay in his hands, indeed in his memory. So the story that I tell isn’t only about the memories that Deo related to me. I hoped in part to reproduce that feeling as I retold his story. But when it’s come to dealing with the burden of his memories, the public health system and clinic that he founded has been the nearest thing to a solution. Several strangers helped to save him from death and despair in Burundi and New York. Paul Farmer) a modern classic, Tracy Kidder follows Deo back to Burundi, where he recalls the horrors of his narrow escape from the war and begins to build a medical clinic where none had been before. We hear about mass slaughter
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man’s inspiring American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him, providing brilliant testament to the power of second chances. Then Deo begins to meet the strangers who will change his life, pointing him eventually in the direction of Columbia University, medical school, and a life devoted to healing. Deo arrives in the United States from Burundi in search of a new life. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels with Deo back over a turbulent life and shows us what it means to be fully human.. Having survived a civil war and genocide, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores