Suggested by Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Head of the International Development Studies Department.
Written by Tracy Kidder, the book is called "Mountains beyond Mountains"
Haroon describes the book as: “testimonies of everyday acts of conscience that profoundly affect the people around the protagonists in ways that improve their lives.”
Find the book here: http://bit.ly/NCGHq1
Book Summary:
Tracy Kidder is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of the bestsellers The Soul of a New Machine, House Among Schoolchildrenand Home Town. He has been described by the Baltimore Sun as the “master of the non-fiction narrative.” This powerful and inspiring new book shows how one person can make a difference, as Kidder tells the true story of a gifted man who is in love with the world and has set out to do all he can to cure it.
At the center of Mountains beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer, a physician, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant, who was brought up in a bus and on a boat. His life’s calling is to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable and how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts through convention to get results.
Mountains beyond Mountains 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" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.’s World Health Organization and others in his quest to cure the world. This book is based on hope and the truth of the Haitian proverb that “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 the force of a gathering revelation,” says Annie Dillard. Jonathan Harr says, “[Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it.”
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