Name: Hijos del ancho mundo (in Spanish)
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Author: ABRAHAM VERGHESE
ISBN: 9788498382600

portada Hijos del ancho mundo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Abraham Verghese

Publisher

SALAMANDRA

Collection

NARRATIVA

Year

2016

Language

Spanish

Pages

640

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.00 x 15.30

ISBN

8498382602

ISBN13

9788498382600

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "Hijos del ancho mundo (in Spanish)"

mientras la india celebra su flamante independencia, la abadesa de un convento de carmelitas en madrás hace realidad uno de sus sueños más audaces: enviar a áfrica dos jóvenes monjas enfermeras con la noble misión de transmitir el amor de cristo ayudando a mitigar el dolor de los que sufren. siete años más tarde, en el modesto hospital missing de adis abeba nacen dos varones gemelos, marion y shiva stone. el hecho no tendría nada de particular si no fuera porque su madre es una monja que muere en el parto y su padre un cirujano británico que desaparece sin dejar rastro. así, los primeros años de los hermanos stone transcurrirán en el feliz microcosmos del hospital misionero, criados por un pequeño grupo de personas que, con escasos medios y recursos, se afanan en curar a los enfermos. con el transcurrir del tiempo, sin embargo, ese mundo cerrado y protegido en el que marion y shiva comparten su pasión por la medicina se resquebraja ante la presión de los acontecimientos que sacuden etiopía y que arrastrarán a los hermanos stone por caminos diferentes, poniendo a prueba su inquebrantable amistad. dotado de las virtudes de los grandes novelistas del siglo xix, el médico y escritor abraham verghese —de origen indio y criado en etiopía—, ha escrito una historia apasionante que sigue a sus protagonistas a través de la india, áfrica y américa a lo largo de cinco décadas, creando así un gran fresco de un país desconocido para la mayoría.

Abraham Verghese

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Abraham Verghese is an American physician, author, Professor at Stanford University’s Medical School, and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine where he is renowned for his focus on healing and empathetic care. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of four books including two memoirs and two novels.

Verghese’s extraordinary new book, The Covenant of Water, will be released May 2, 2023. With page-turning energy, it tells an epic story of India’s path to modernity through a single family living in Kerala from 1900 to the 1970s, moving through joy, tragedy, love, and marriage as the country around them shifts and turns. It’s a beautiful, humbling book about family lineage and connection, and also about the unexpected ways mankind makes progress. The Covenant of Water blends the author’s deep knowledge of and enthusiasm for the medical world with his writing genius, resulting in a bold, sweeping story that reads like a riveting classic Russian novel.

His remarkable first book, the highly praised My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story, was Verghese’s memoir about his work treating AIDS patients in rural Tennessee. He followed this with The Tennis Partner: A Story of Friendship and Loss, another eloquently personal story, this time about his friend and tennis partner, a medical resident in recovery from drug addiction. Verghese’s previous novel, Cutting for Stone, describes a period of dramatic political change in Ethiopia. It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for two years.

Verghese is the recipient of a Heinz Award in 2014 and a National Humanities Medal from Obama in 2015.

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