This Is a Soul: An American Doctor's Remarkable Mission in Ethiopia - Couverture souple

Berger, Marilyn

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061759554 ISBN 13 : 9780061759550

Editeur : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2011

Synopsis

“A powerful, important book for our age.”

―Abraham Verghese, author Cutting For Stone

Passionately written by journalist Marilyn Berger, This is a Soul is the moving and inspiring story of Dr. Rick Hodes, an American doctor living in Ethiopia, who has devoted his life to caring for the sickest of the sick and the poorest of the poor. Dr. Hodes’s life and work makes for fascinating reading, especially for those who have been profoundly touched by Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains.

This unforgettable biography chronicles one man’s mission to heal the world, one person at a time.

• A Doctor’s Mission: Follow Dr. Rick Hodes from the suburbs of America to the heart of Addis Ababa, where he confronts unimaginable poverty and disease with unrelenting compassion.
• An Unconventional Family: Discover how Dr. Hodes’s home became a sanctuary for over twenty sick and abandoned children, five of whom he officially adopted as his own.
• Treating the Untreatable: Witness the fight to save children with complex illnesses like spinal tuberculosis and severe heart disease, cases often considered hopeless.
• Medicine on the Front Lines: Journey with Dr. Hodes into the refugee camps of post-genocide Rwanda, where he brought medical care to the front lines of a humanitarian crisis.
• A Story of Hope: For readers of Mountains Beyond Mountains, this is an unforgettable story of what one person can do to heal the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marilyn Berger is a contributing writer to the New York Times. She was previously a diplomatic correspondent for Newsday and the Washington Post, and was the United Nations correspondent for ABC News and the White House correspondent for NBC News. She was the moderator on the public affairs program The Advocates and anchored WNET's City Edition. She was the director of programs and public affairs for the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have been published in the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"Whoever Saves a Life, It Is Considered as If He Saved an Entire World"

Dr. Rick Hodes arrived in Africa more than two decades ago to help the victims of a famine, but he never expected to call this extremely poor continent his home. Twenty-eight years later, he is still there.

This Is a Soul tells the remarkable story of Rick Hodes's journey from suburban America to Mother Teresa's clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As a boy, Rick was devoted to helping those in need, and eventually he determined that becoming a doctor would allow him to do the most good. When he heard about famine in Africa, that's where he went, and when genocide convulsed Rwanda, he went into the refugee camps to minister to the victims. When he was told that Ethiopia was allowing its Jews to emigrate to Israel, he went to help. While there, he was drawn to Mother Teresa's mission in Addis Ababa. It was there that Rick found his calling when he began caring for the sickest children in one of the world's poorest countries. But he did more than that—he began taking them into his home and officially adopted five of them.

This Is a Soul is also a book filled with great joy and triumph. When Rick's kids return from surgery or life-saving treatments, he is exultant. "Seeing these people after surgery is like going to heaven," he says.

Marilyn Berger went to Africa to write about Dr. Hodes, but while there, she became involved with the story. When she came upon a small, deformed, and malnourished boy begging on the street, she recognized immediately that he had the exact disease Rick could cure. She took him to Rick, who eventually arranged for the boy to have a complicated and risky surgery, which turned out to be incredibly successful. The boy's story—intertwined with Rick's, and Marilyn's as well—is unforgettable in its pathos and subtle humor.

This Is a Soul is not just a story of the savior and the saved, it is a celebration of love and wisdom, and an exploration of how charity and devotion can actually change lives in an overcrowded, unjust, and often harsh world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0061759554
• ISBN 13: 9780061759550
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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