ISBN:
9781908276636
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (136 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
301.024
Keywords:
Sick-Social conditions
;
Sick ; Social conditions
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A nurse sleeps at the bedside of his dying patients; a wife deceives her husband by never telling him he has cancer; a bedridden man has to be hidden from his demented and amorous eighty-year-old wife. In her poignant and genre-busting debut, Susana Moreira Marques confronts us with our own mortality and inspires us to think about what is important. Accompanying a palliative care team, Moreira Marques travelled to Trás-os-Montes, a forgotten corner of northern Portugal, a rural area abandoned by the young. Crossing great distances where eagles circle over the roads, she visits villages where rural ways of life are disappearing. She listens to families facing death and gives us their stories in their words as well as through her own meditations. Brilliantly blending the immediacy of oral history with the sensibility of philosophical reportage, Moreira Marques' book speaks about death in a fresh way.
Abstract:
Intro -- Travel Notes about Death -- Portraits -- Paula -- João and Maria -- Elisa and Sara -- When You Come Back from the Journey no Healthy Person Wants to Take, You Will… -- Subscribers -- About the Author -- Current and Upcoming Books -- Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgments.
Note:
Description based on print version record
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