Tracy Kidder
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| Title | : | Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness |
| Author | : | Tracy Kidder |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 277 pages |
| Published | : | August 25th 2009 by Random House (first published February 29th 2000) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Cultural. Africa. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. History |
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Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, and the enduring classic Mountains Beyond Mountains, has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” In this new book, Kidder gives us the superb story of a hero for our time. Strength in What Remains is a wonderfully written, inspiring account of one man’s remarkable American journey and of the ordinary people who helped him – a brilliant testament to the power of will and of second chances.
Deo arrives in America from Burundi in search of a new life. Having survived a civil war and genocide, plagued by horrific dreams, he lands at JFK airport with two hundred dollars, no English, and no contacts. He ekes out a precarious existence delivering groceries, living in Central Park, and learning English by reading dictionaries in bookstores. Then Deo 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. Kidder breaks new ground in telling this unforgettable story as he travels with Deo back over a turbulent life in search of meaning and forgiveness.
An extraordinary writer, Tracy Kidder once again shows us what it means to be fully human by telling a story about the heroism inherent in ordinary people, a story about a life based on hope.
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| Original Title: | Strength in What Remains |
| ISBN: | 1400066212 (ISBN13: 9781400066216) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2009), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2009) |
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This is a book about a very good man. An incredible man who lived through such atrocities and hardship and all the while good in him prevailed. This is a story about the generosity on a good heart, a person of strength and character who never gave up his dream to help people and bring peace to a troubled world. Cheers Deo - Very well done!An informative memoir of the persecution faced by an Hutu, Deo, who escapes death by Burundian Tutsis across the border to Rwanda where he faces even more trouble evading ethnic cleansing by Rwandan Tutsis. Deo's story continues with his struggles as a non-English speaking immigrant in New York City and the realization of his dreams. I was enthralled listening to the first 2/3rds of this book, Deo's story, but the last one-third relates the account of the author shadowing Deo. This I found
Tracy Kidder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is one of my favorite authors! After reading Mountains Upon Mountains about one of my heroes, Paul Farmer, I couldn't wait to read Strength in What Remains. I was not disappointed! Deo is a Burundian refugee, arriving in the United States. Through flashbacks, the reader begins to understand the horror that Deo underwent as a Tutsi in his country. As hatred once again grew to a high pitch among the Hutus and Tutsis in Deo's country, Deo started making
A true story of a young Burundian (a country I now know exists) who fled his country to escape ethnic genocide in the early 1990s. Unfortunately he escaped to Rwanda, a country he then had to flee to escape a similar attempt at ethnic genocide. The novel begins as he arrives in America with $200 to his name and not a word of English. Parts of his past are slowly revealed as he attempts to make a new life in America. I am not sure I have the resilience to deal with being homeless in New York let
This fabulous book tells the story of Deo, a young medical student who survives genocide and war in Burundi and escapes, only to find himself struggling to make it from day to day on the streets of New York City. The book begins with Deo's arrival and early months in New York. Little by little, the author goes back in time to reveal first Deo's childhood and adolescent years in Burundi, spent in a typical family in a typical village, his high school and medical school years, and ultimately, his
Fabulous, moving and complex-- it takes you between NYC and Burundi and Rwanda through the life of Deo, who was medical student when the massacres of Tutsis began in Burundi (Oct 1993- about 6 months before the genocide in Rwanda). It is not easy to describe this book, but Tracy Kidder with his usual understated gift manages to allow us to begin to enter the unimaginable world of Deo, in ways that don't ever reduce anything to simple. It is a must read if you care about being human, and
This started out as a solid 3-star book but slid down to 2 during the second half. Basically, I agree with the goodreads reviewer who said this would have worked better as a New Yorker article than it did as a full-length book.This non-fiction book recounts the story of Deo, a young man who grew up as a Tutsi in Burundi and began attending medical school only to have his life torn apart by the war and genocide ripping his country. Against staggering odds, Deo managed to survive and fly to
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