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Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges widely-held preconceptions about poverty and healthcare.
As a medical student, Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine - so readily available in the developed world - to those who need them most. Beginning in Haiti, he tackles the conditions that contribute to so many unnecessary deaths with his trademark combination of world-class expertise, unlimited compassion, and the unstinting dedication of friends and colleagues. Tracy Kidder's magnificent and moving account shows how, from achieving this modest dream, one person can make a difference in solving global problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems and medicine.
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Affecting...at one the story of an epic battle against poverty and a finely balanced character study (Wendell Steavenson Sunday Times)
Quite simply, Mountains Beyond Mountains is a book you should read. It's not smug and self-satisfied, it's not poverty and suffering porn, it's not predictable. It's genuinely touching, inspiring and excellently written. Highly recommended (Keith Dudhnath The Bookbag)
An absorbing read (Julian Fleming Sunday Business Post)
Inspiring, disturbing, daring and completely absorbing (New York Times Book Review)
A masterpiece that will leave you questioning your own life and political views. It's the perfect testament to a man who continues to reshape medicine and who has become, undoubtedly, an uncommon saviour to a country that desperately needed one (USA Today)
A true-to-life fairytale ... Its stark sense of reality comes as much from the grit between the pages as from the pure gold those pages spin (Boston Sunday Globe)
It'll fill you equally with wonder and hope (People)
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Quite simply, Mountains Beyond Mountains is a book you should read. It's not smug and self-satisfied, it's not poverty and suffering porn, it's not predictable. It's genuinely touching, inspiring and excellently written. Highly recommended (Keith Dudhnath The Bookbag)
An absorbing read (Julian Fleming Sunday Business Post)
Inspiring, disturbing, daring and completely absorbing (New York Times Book Review)
A masterpiece that will leave you questioning your own life and political views. It's the perfect testament to a man who continues to reshape medicine and who has become, undoubtedly, an uncommon saviour to a country that desperately needed one (USA Today)
A true-to-life fairytale ... Its stark sense of reality comes as much from the grit between the pages as from the pure gold those pages spin (Boston Sunday Globe)
It'll fill you equally with wonder and hope (People)
One man's fight to save lives in Haiti and everywhere
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, and Strength in What Remains, amongst others. This compelling and inspiring book, shows how one person can work wonders. In Mountains Beyond Mountains, author Tracy Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who loves the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Kidder's magnificent account takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that 'the only real nation is humanity.' At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb 'Beyond mountains there are mountains' - as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.'Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with a force of gathering revelation,' says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr notes, '[Paul Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it. One man's fight to save lives in Haiti and everywhere. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781846684319
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