Strength in What Remains

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the modern classics "Mountains Beyond Mountains" and "The Soul of a New Machine" returns with the extraordinary true story of a young man and his will to turn his life into something truly remarkable.

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Publishers Weekly (05/11/2009)
With an anthropologist's eye and a novelist's pen, Pulitzer Prizewinning Kidder ("Mountains Beyond Mountains") recounts the story of Deo, the Burundian former medical student turned American émigré at the center of this strikingly vivid story. Told in flashbacks from Deo's 2006 return visit to Burundi to mid-1990s New York and the Burundi of childhood memory and young adulthoodas the Rwandan genocide spilled across the border following the same inflamed ethnic divisionsthen picking up in 2003, when author and subject first meet, Deo's experience is conveyed with a remarkable depth of vision and feeling. Kidder renders his subject with deep yet unfussy fidelity and the conflict with detail and nuance. While the book might recall Dave Eggers's novelized version of a real-life Sudanese refugee's experience in "What Is the What", reading this book hardly covers old ground, but enables one to walk in the footsteps of its singular subject and see worlds new and old afresh. This profoundly gripping, hopeful and crucial testament is a work of the utmost skill, sympathy and moral clarity. "(Aug.)" Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.

ISBN: 1400066212 | EAN: 9781400066216
Publisher: Random House  | Publication Date: August, 2009

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