9780812977615
Strength in What Remains
Tracy Kidder
ISBN 13: 9780812977615
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Softcover
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"This profoundly gripping, hopeful and crucial testament is a work of the utmost skill, sympathy and moral clarity." (starred review)
Publisher's Weekly, 05/11/2009
Review:"Deo's hopeful story may be intended as some kind of uplifting continental metaphor, but it's inevitably something else as well: a depressing tale of Africa's chaotic destitution, which grinds on despite heroes and even saints. But despair is far from the point here. Kidder's abiding preoccupation is the everyday heroism of ordinary people, and his latest is rife with such unsung heroes....The decency of some in the face of others' almost unimaginable cruelty adds richness and wonder to what otherwise might have been the amply remarkable story of one person's miraculous survival."
Daniel Akst, Boston Globe, 08/23/2009
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Book Description: Random House. 1 Paperback(s), 2010. soft. Book Condition: New. The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder here gives us the remarkable story of Deo, an ethnic Tutsi from Burundi who was nearly killed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Smuggled to America, he eventually graduated from Columbia University and medical school at Dartmouth and returned to Burundi to build a clinic."That 63-year-old Tracy Kidder may have just written his finest work—indeed, one of the truly stunning books I've read this year—is proof that the secret to memorable nonfiction is so often the writer's readiness to be surprised. Deo's experience can feel like this era's version of the Ellis Island migration. Deo is propelled, so often, by pure will, and his victories . summon a feeling of restored confidence in human nature and American opportunity. Then we plunge into hell. Having only glimpses of Deo's past, we suddenly get a full-blown portrait. Kidder's rendering of what Deo endured and survived just before he boarded the plane for New York is one of the most powerful passages of modern nonfiction."—NYTBR 284. Bookseller Inventory # 31295 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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