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Lädt ... Strength in What Remains (Original 2009; 2009. Auflage)von Tracy Kidder
Werk-InformationenStrength in What Remains von Tracy Kidder (2009)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I'm sure some people will bypass this book because the subject is about the genocide in Burundi and Rwanda, which is not exactly relaxing reading material. (Actually I would have bypassed it too if I hadn't read a good review somewhere or other.) But it's also a true and wonderfully hopeful story of kindness and survival. Deogratias, who escaped from the genocide via an Aeroflot flight, spoke no English, had never been out of Burundi, and arrived in NYC alone with only his nightmarish memories and $200 in his pocket. The book slips back and forth between his life in the US and his life growing up in Burundi until the horrific civil war forced him to run. I'm still digesting this story ... it raises all kinds of questions and thoughts about cultures, good and evil, poverty, wealth, kindness to strangers, education ... it's a great book and well worth reading (so good in fact that I read it in one day.) ( ) Wow. What a story. I had never really read about the genocide in Rwanda and didn't know it occurred at the same time in neighboring Burundi. This book does so many things. It tells the story of the genocide. It tells the story of a modern day impoverished immigrant to the US, the story of what it is like to live in NY at the bottom end of the socioeconomic ladder. It is an honest and unflinching look at human nature as played out in the lives of many different people, especially Deogratias. A Tutsi medical student tells a grim story of the slaughter in Burundi. The events leading to his unlikely escape explain, as much as possible, the central African genocide of a decade ago. But that's only part of Tracy Kidder's tale. Equally daunting is how refugee Deo (only his given name is used) overcomes homelessness in New York, completes his medical studies and returns to Burundi, where he builds a clinic and ponders his deliverance. It's a common American story -- I've met a Congolese journalist who fled to become a Chicago janitor -- but few immigrants have a writer as skillful as Kidder to chart their tortuous route here. The story of a young man from Burundi, who narrowly escaped death during a civil war and genocide there, who landed in New York and managed to make something of himself. But not easily. Not quickly. Deogratias (known simply as Deo) spent a long time on the streets, taking showers in apartments that were not his. He survived by working long hours at difficult, underpaid jobs, putting up with prejudice and worse. Yet the angels smiled on him. That would be one way to look at it. A woman in a church was drawn to his story, to his personality. She was determined to find help for him, and in time she actually did. She found a safe place for him to live, with an educated couple who also saw promise in the young man. Through their help he found his way to college, to earning a medical degree, and finally to returning to his country to try to fulfill a lifelong dream there. The story is of a remarkable man and of the remarkable persons who helped along the way. It is thus a story of hope in spite of the horrors, both in Burundi and New York. The one other book I have read by Kidder is Mountains Beyond Mountains, the story of Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, now an international organization dedicated to bringing good medical care to all parts of the world. What distinguishes both books from most biographies is the fact that Kidder becomes a friend, a close friend, to his subjects. In fact, it is probably his friendship with Farmer and his organization that led to his hearing the story of Deogratias and then befriending him. Kidder's approach is warm and sympathetic. He doesn't just tell the story from an arm's length. Rather, he's very much inside it. Absorbing, at times horrifying, ultimately hopeful. I expect we will hear more of Deogratias.
Mr. Kidder’s prose handles beautifully, but there are places it can’t take you, moral and intellectual territory that remain out of reach... I am being hard, I fear, on a book that I read with great interest. 63-year-old Tracy Kidder may have just written his finest work — indeed, one of the truly stunning books I’ve read this year. It's hard for the reader to escape the conclusion that Deogratias can live with what happened and build his hospital and do good only by lying to himself about the nature of the recent past. This raises the chewy problem of why Kidder is telling this story. Is it primarily an inspirational tale of an immigrant-made-good, a repudiation of Lou Dobbs-style bigotry? If so, his book succeeds 10 times over in an uncomplicated way. Or does Kidder believe primarily in the need to record accurately what happened during the darkest moments in human history? If this is his goal, then he is—subtly, sympathetically—chiding his subject. Once again Tracy Kidder has written about someone who cares deeply about improving health care for the poorest of the poor. Burundi is a small landlocked country in Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Burundi is one of the ten poorest countries in the world Kidder uses Deo’s experiences to deliver a very personal and harrowing account of the ethnic genocide in East Central Africa. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenAuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder returns with the extraordinary true story of Deo, a young man who arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. After surviving a civil war and genocide, he ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores until he 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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)305.8967572073Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism Other Groups African OriginKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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